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Title: The Storyteller (1987–1989)
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| John Hurt | ... | The Storyteller 9 episodes, 1987-1988 | |
| Brian Henson | ... | Storyteller's Dog / ... 9 episodes, 1987-1988 | |
| Frederick Warder | ... | Giant / ... 3 episodes, 1987-1988 | |
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David Greenaway | ... | Badger / ... 3 episodes, 1988 |
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Robert Tygner | ... | Badger / ... 3 episodes, 1988 |
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Alistair Fullarton | ... | Death / ... 3 episodes, 1988 |
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Diana Payan | ... | Miller's Wife / ... 2 episodes, 1988 |
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Robin Summers | ... | Jailer / ... 2 episodes, 1987-1988 |
| Michael Kilgarriff | ... | Lion / ... 2 episodes, 1987-1988 | |
| Peter Marinker | ... | Devil / ... 2 episodes, 1988 | |
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A variety of European folk tales are retold in nine new stories. A soldier captures Death in a magic sack. A fearless young man sets out to learn to shudder. A boy with a destiny that frightens a tyrant is sent on an impossible task that will see him wed the princess, or dead. A storyteller must spin tales to stay alive. A woman bears a hedgehog-child who grows up to live alone in a castle until he does a king a favor and gets the princess's hand in return. A princess must keep silent while she works to free her brothers from an evil spell. A princess runs away from wedding her father and disguises herself as an ugly forest creature. A young boy must overcome a heartless giant. A princess searches the earth for her stolen bridegroom. Written by Kathy Li
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28 April 1989 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Jim Henson's The Storyteller See more »Filming Locations:
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Jim Henson hadn't actually thought of having the Storyteller's dog talk, but Anthony Minghella assumed from the outline, that since this was a Henson project, any animals would talk, and thus the Storyteller had a talking dog. See more »Quotes
The Storyteller: [opening lines] When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place by the fire was kept for... The Storyteller.See more »
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I remember watching this show as a kid. It made quite an impression on me, to be honest I was absolutely spellbound.
Quite recently I obtained a DVD-release and was somewhat amazed: It was just as good as I remembered it! This is not simply a bad case of nostalgia, this show is definitely something above the ordinary. We might have struck gold here..
The show is in nine stand alone episodes based on nine old folktales. (Mostly Russian or German) Not so "kidified" as most recent versions, just a little bit cruel, but always with a happy ending (with 2 exceptions)
The special effects (especially the creature effects ) still look really good even in this time of photo-realistic computer animation. If you take into account that this is a TV-production from 1987 the effects are absolutely outstanding! They give a much more living impression than many computer generated creatures I have seen of late.
The actor performances are maybe not always of academy award winning standard.. but I can live with that, and most probably so can you. Not all nine episodes are masterpieces either, but some come very close to being just that. "The Soldier and Death" is in my opinion one of the best and appears to be the first choice of most other reviewers. "Sapsorrow" (their version of Cinderella) is also worth mentioning. Maybe not for it's greatness but for the most enjoyable Disney reference. Very amusing.
When this was aired it had the added title: "Stories for grown up children" and that is a good description of what this is. Maybe not for the very youngest but perfect for anyone else. Especially anyone interested in folktales or anything fantasy-like.
Highly recommended.