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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Cast & Crew.

Ferdinand Diehl

Director

Paul Diehl

Screenplay

Hermann Diehl

Director

Walter Pepper

Music

Jacob Grimm

Writer

Alfonse Lufteck

Cinematography

Wilhelm Grimm

Story

Jacob Grimm

Story

Media.

Details.

Release Date
December 2, 1937

Original Name
Die sieben Raben

Status
Released

Running Time
53m

Genres
Animation Drama Fantasy Kids & Family

Last updated: 2025-02-11

This Movie Is About.

stop motion

raven

ravens

prince

court

based on fairy tale

puppet animation

Wiki.

The Seven Ravens (German: Die sieben Raben) is a German stop motion-animated fairy tale film directed by the Diehl brothers (Diehl Film). It was released in Germany on 2 December 1937. The film is notable for being an animated feature film based on a Grimm brothers' fairy tale of the same name, premiering 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.