The Seven Ravens (1937 film)

The Seven Ravens

2004 DVD cover
Directed by Ferdinand Diehl
Hermann Diehl
Produced by Puppentrickfilm
Screenplay by Paul Diehl
Based on The Seven Ravens 
by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
Music by Walter Pepper
Cinematography Alfonse Lufteck
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Original)
Columbia TriStar (Today)
Release dates
  • 2 December 1937 (1937-12-02)
Running time
53 minutes
Country Germany
Language German

The Seven Ravens (German: Die sieben Raben) is a German stop motion-animated fairytale film directed by the Diehl brothers. It was released in Germany on 2 December 1937, and was the eighth animated feature film to ever be released (Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the ninth). It was also the third feature film to use puppet animation, behind The New Gulliver from 1935 and The Tale of the Fox, released in Germany eight months earlier.

Plot

The plot is based on the fairy tale of the same name which was written by the Brothers Grimm.

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