A boy who needs a friend finds a world that needs a hero in a land beyond imagination!
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.
Directed byWolfgang Petersen
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Language
- DE
- Released
- April 6, 1984
- Budget
- $27,000,000
- Revenue
- $20,158,808
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Featuring
Cast & crew
Noah Hathaway
Atreyu
Barret Oliver
Bastian
Tami Stronach
The Childlike Empress
Alan Oppenheimer
Rockbiter / Falkor / G'mork / Narrator (voice)
Sydney Bromley
Engywook
Patricia Hayes
Urgl
Moses Gunn
Cairon - Empress' Servant
Frank Lenart
Teeny Weeny / Night Hob (voice)
Robert Jadah
Morla the Ancient One (voice)
Gerald McRaney
Bastian's Father
- Directed by
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Written by
- Wolfgang PetersenHerman Weigel
- Produced by
- Bernd SchaefersDieter Geissler
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