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The NeverEnding Story

Original title: Die unendliche Geschichte

A boy who needs a friend finds a world that needs a hero in a land beyond imagination!

1984 · PG · 1h 41m

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen

7.2

TMDB audience score
4,566 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • 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

  • Tilo Prückner
    Night Hob

  • Deep Roy
    Teeny Weeny

  • Chris Eastman
    1st Bully

  • Darryl Cooksey
    2nd Bully

  • Nicholas Gilbert
    3rd Bully

  • Thomas Hill
    Carl Conrad Koreander - the Librarian

  • Donald Arthur
    School's Caretaker (uncredited)

  • Bernd Eichinger
    Man Next to Man Who Drops Milk (uncredited)