The Seven Ravens (1937)

Name: The Seven Ravens
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Kids & Family
Released: 1937-12-02

53m

Running Time

Plot.

When a young girl finds out that, due to her existence, her seven brothers are struck by a curse and have to live their lives as ravens, she goes out in a quest to find them. Considered to be the first German feature length stop motion film.

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This Movie Is About.

stop motion ·

prince ·

based on fairy tale ·

raven ·

court ·

ravens ·

puppet animation

Cast & Crew.

Jacob Grimm

Story

Wilhelm Grimm

Story

Ferdinand Diehl

Director

Hermann Diehl

Director

Jacob Grimm

Writer

Paul Diehl

Screenplay

Walter Pepper

Music

Alfonse Lufteck

Cinematography

Media.

Details.

Release Date
December 2, 1937

Original Name
Die sieben Raben

Status
Released

Running Time
53m

Genres
Animation Drama Fantasy Kids & Family

Wiki.

The Seven Ravens (German: Die sieben Raben) is a German stop motion-animated fairy tale film directed by the Diehl brothers. It was released in Germany on 2 December 1937. The film is notable for being an animated feature film based on a Grimms' fairy tales story which premiered only a few weeks before Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In that respect it is often cited as one of the first animated feature films.