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Die unendliche Geschichte – nach dem Roman von Michael Ende Vor 40 Jahren erschien der Roman Die unendliche Geschichte erscheint 1979 und rangiert fast sechzig Wochen lang auf den Bestsellerlisten.

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Der zehnjährige dickliche Bastian Balthasar Bux flüchtet sich vor den Nachstellungen der Schulkameraden in ein Antiquariat, wo ihn der Beginn eines Buches fasziniert, dessen Titel immer währendes Träumen verspricht. Bastian entwendet Die unendliche Geschichte und verliert sich auf dem Schulspeicher immer mehr in deren Lektüre: Die zunehmende Identifikation mit dem Helden A..more
Published 1979 by Thienemanns
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CatherineI read it to my 6 year old and she loves it. I did, however, skip over or adjust sections I felt she would be too sensitive to. Or, rather, rephrase…moreI read it to my 6 year old and she loves it. I did, however, skip over or adjust sections I felt she would be too sensitive to. Or, rather, rephrase them so she could still hear about them but in a manner more suitable to her age. She said the best thing is that this book has no pictures so she can imagine instead.(less)
ElannaI am 40 and I don't like fantasy. I read this book when I was ten, then a couple of times as an adult and I read it to children too. I never get tired…moreI am 40 and I don't like fantasy. I read this book when I was ten, then a couple of times as an adult and I read it to children too. I never get tired of it. Style is great, and it's less centered on good vs evil dynamics, more on personal growth. It's not about escaping in a fantasy world, it is about learning to live in the world, and to tell reality from imagination. One mile above all other children books. (less)
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Aug 25, 2007Greg rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy
One of my favorite books of all time; this one is definitely closest to my heart. I've certainly read it more than any other (Ender's Game being a close second). Which is interesting because it's almost nothing like any of my other favorites (besides maybe Watership Down). Maybe it's because it's the first main character I was able to truly identify with. Or maybe because Bastian does what I had always dreamed of as a child, since the day I started reading: to enter inside a book, to turn my ima..more
Nov 29, 2009Manybooks rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: childrens-literature, fairy-tales-fantasy, michael-ende, german-literature, classics, favourites-read, books-on-books, book-reviews
Although I have read this book more than twenty times, I have, until now, never actually written a longer and more involved review for Michael Ende's utterly amazing The Neverending Story (I have also never read it in English). I first read it in German in the early 80s, I believe, and I have reread it regularly over the years. Die unendliche Geschichte is thus truly one of my all-time favourite German children's literature books. I love/adore everything about this novel, including the ingenious..more
Sep 23, 2009Ahmad Sharabiani rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy, german, european, literature, 20th-century
Die Unendliche Geschichte = The never ending story, Michael Ende
The Neverending Story is a fantasy novel by German writer Michael Ende, first published in 1979. An English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was first published in 1983. The novel was later adapted into several films. The book centers on a boy, Bastian Balthazar Bux, a overweight and strange child who is neglected by his father after the death of Bastian's mother. While escaping from some bullies, Bastian bursts into the antiquarian..more
Feb 11, 2013Mark Lawrence rated it liked it · review of another edition
Read this to my daughter recently. A very mixed bag.
First off I should say that although the book was written in 1979 it reads as though it were written in 1939. The translator has consistently reached for the most complicated/high falutin' word available and as a result the child's book ends up unreadable/incomprehensible to many modern kids. I'm not one for dumbing down, but this goes the other way pointlessly.
I saw the film around the time it came out years ago. The book seems to reach the en..more
Dec 21, 2012Kalin rated it it was amazing ·

Die Geschichte Der Deutschen

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Recommends it for: everyone who's ever suffered from escapism всеки, страдащ/-л от ескейпизъм
(долу и на български, но по-прибрано ;)
The first--and still most luminous--story that urged me to stop running away from my life into books and start weaving books back into my life. If this sounds too abstract, consider the Human Library: a child of The Neverending Story, a sister of Moonchild.
This book made me polish my German enough to read it in the original. (And make notes of important mistakes in the Bulgarian translation. ;)
It made me itch to create a MUSH, where no two lands of Fantasti..more
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Bradley rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy, ya, fanboy-goes-squee, top-one-hundred, top-ten-w-cheats
Like many people of my generation, I loved the film adaptation (the first, not the second, thank you) and never realized that it had come from a book until a number of years later. In fact, I read it the first time in '07 and not only was I delighted at how imaginative it was, I was flabbergasted (joyfully so) that it lived up to its name.
It's quick reading, by any standard, but so deliciously dense in imagery, mythology, and an engrossing plot that I swore that if I had any children, this would..more
Sep 11, 2009Ben rated it liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: read-in-2010, like-magic, transformative-experience
I loved most of what I read, yet I’m stopping on page 352; I just can’t continue. And you know, I’m not entirely sure why I can’t continue -– I just know that I can’t.
But I have a theory.
Having loved the movie version of this in my youth, the whole story is etched into the part of my psyche that deals with childhood; that time when so much is new; where much in the world is observed through an inner-wonder of the mind and a stirring of the soul: a magical state, by adult standards. Freud may ha..more
Feb 01, 2018Dan Schwent rated it really liked it · review of another edition
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Oct 09, 2011BAM The Bibliomaniac rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I read this every year. This time I'm doing an audio version. I absolutely adore this novel, and shared it with every class I taught. I'll never forget the students who acted out the swamps of sadness in the middle of a walk through river mud sucking off our shoes. That's really what the gift of this book is-the breath of imagination. This will be a perfect purchase for my nieces.
2017 Reading Challenge: story within a story
Audio reread #8
6/20/18 audio read # 73
The beginning scene in the bookstor..more
Jun 25, 2014Lisa rated it it was amazing
My children are currently listening to a never-ending audiobook of this all time children's favourite of mine, and I find myself secretly spying on them, listening to bits and pieces of the story, always knowing exactly where they are at the moment, after so many rereadings!
I still dream of finding a bookstore like the one where Bastian Balthasar Bux found 'The Neverending Story'. I don't think I ever pass an antique shop without thinking of this book for at least a fraction of a second, it is s..more
Feb 15, 2016PopiTonja rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Beskrajno uzivanje!!!! Milion zvezdica!
Nov 14, 2013Eric Allen rated it it was ok · review of another edition
The Neverending Story
By Michael Ende
A Review by Eric Allen.
'ONLY TWO STARS,' you cry, 'Eric, have you no soul!?!?!' You're obviously going by the movie, which is AWESOME, and have never actually read the book it was based on, which is not so much.
When I was six or seven, the Neverending Story came out, and it was one of the most awesome movies I had ever seen in my life. It was a movie that wasn't afraid to scare the everliving shit out of children, and I loved it for that. Even today, many, ma..more
Apr 21, 2018Ajeje Brazov rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy, lett-tedesca, classici, indimenticabili
Un libro bellissimo, stupendo, pieno di spunti di riflessione, pieno di fantàsia, d'immaginazione, di gioia e soprattutto, pienissimo di amore, amore per i libri, amore per tutto. Senza amore cosa saremmo?
Ho visto il film centinaia di volte, è stato tra i miei film preferiti da bambino/ragazzino, ancora oggi (non più giovanissimo :-P) me lo riguardo con molto piacere, ma il film non è che una piccola parte del libro. Il libro è magico davvero, ho trovato e soprattutto provato empatia verso tutto..more
Jul 12, 2012Penny rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: k-read-kids, favorites, classics, reviewed, tv
IN ORDER FOR REALITY TO EXIST, THERE HAS TO BE FANTASY.
The Neverending Storyis a splendid and brilliant story, full of adventure, magic, strength, perseverance, loyalty, self-improvement and self-fulfillment . It’s a positively COMMENDABLE book.
This is a MUST-READ for all preteens out there. It’s beautiful, with a great and marvelous world full of fantasy and dreaming. It really is MAGICAL.
I have really great memories of reading this book. I think I was 13 or so, maybe less I am not sure; bu..more

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Mar 30, 2016Sophia Triad rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: children, 4fantasy-lovestories, favorites
This is one of the best books I have read when I was a kid.
I have read it multiple times and I was extremely disappointed with the movie adaptation.
I truly believe that this story has inspired me and made me love Fantacy books so much later on as an adult.
(If my remember correctly my godfather gave it to me as a Christmas present together with 'Comet in Moominland' by Tove Jansson. The best combination!)
Although it is more than 25 years since I last read it, I still remember scenes of the story..more
Jul 07, 2014Franco Santos rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Un libro excelente. Fantasía al 100 %. La historia interminable, a través de su película, me acompañó por muchos años de mi infancia. Su lectura actual es una especie de reencuentro con ese mundo.
Jan 02, 2017Cri (PaperbacksandPizza) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: favorites, 5-stars, books-i-own, classics, fantasy, stand-alone, reread, read-in-2017, middle-grade
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First of all, I have to say I am not a native english speaker so, please, I prefer to not be attacked, if I made any mistakes. Instead of do that, it would be nice if you corrected me, thank you :)


“If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empt
..more
Apr 27, 2016Frogy (Ivana) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Realno ocena je 5000000*
Apr 17, 2018Leo . rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Is the Eternal Stench a real place? I am convinced my neighbour came from there!!!🐯👍
The Eternal Stench, a smelly, dank, dark, mysterious location
A swamp full of creatures, monsters, twisted vegetation
Boiling and bubbling fetid and stinky, a bog, a quagmire
A slimy, slippery, unkempt, unclean and dire
I swear I saw a face familiar to me
In the film, many years ago, a grotesque entity
I read about him in the book too
A deviant, a goblin, stinking of puss and poo
The face I know, that was on show
I see hi..more
Oct 06, 2017peiman-mir5 rezakhani rated it liked it · review of another edition
دوستانِ گرانقدر، داستانِ این کتاب از جایی آغاز میشود که پسر بچه ای رویا پرداز به نامِ <باستیان>، در حالِ فرار از بچه هایی که او را اذیت میکنند، واردِ کتابفروشی میشود.. در آنجا پیرمردِ کتابفروش، کتابی را به او معرفی میکند. باستیان که کنجکاو شده تا آن را بخواند، کتاب را برداشته و از مغازه فرار میکند.. او به زیرزمینِ مدرسه رفته و خواندنِ کتاب را آغاز میکند
داستانِ آن کتاب، از این قرار است که، 'هیچ' لحظه به لحظه دنیای فانتزیا یا همان سرزمینِ رویاها را در هم کوبیده و نابود کرده و به هیچ و پوچ..more
Oct 13, 2016Maureen rated it liked it · review of another edition
I feel like I'm very torn on this book because while I did enjoy it and did enjoy listening to it, it was so rough to get through. I liked the story, but it didn't hook me and capture me and make me want to keep reading, so it took me over a month to listen to it (SO LONG).
Overall a really interesting story with a lot of unique circumstances and characters! I've also never seen the movie (I KNOW) and I know it's super different so now I want to watch it even more!
Jul 01, 2016Nikoleta rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Το βιβλίο Ιστορία χωρίς τέλος το διάβασα για πρώτη φορά πριν εννιά χρόνια. Τώρα καθώς με έπιασε νοσταλγία για την ιστορία του έπρεπε να το ξαναπιάσω. Σε αυτή την ανάγνωση ήρθα αντιμέτωπη με νέα δεδομένα και η ιστορία που διάβασα δεν μου φάνηκε καθόλου ίδια με εκείνη εννιά χρόνια πριν. Η πρώτη μου παρατήρηση, αυτό που θαύμασα, είναι το εύρος των εικόνων, των πλασμάτων και των σκηνικών που έχει δημιουργήσει ο Έντε και το εύρος των δυνατοτήτων που δίνει στον ήρωα του όταν αυτός είναι στην φανταστικ..more
Nov 10, 2018Fabiola Castillo Autora rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
una historia profunda y emocionante que simboliza un viaje interior para reencontrar el niño perdido y su capacidad de asombro, a fin de que se haga hombre. Atraviesa el duelo y el abandono para llegar a la luz de las propias capacidades de crecimiento.
Jun 04, 2019Daniel Curiel rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Leí esta novela sin muchas expectativas, ya que leo poca literatura fantástica. Además, pese a que a muchos les fascinó la película, a mí no me dejó maravillado. La propusieron en un grupo de lectura, y después de pensármelo un poco decidí unirme.
Debo decir que La historia interminable me sorprendió gratamente y no me arrepiento de haberla leído.
Michael Ende escribió una historia divertida y llena de aventuras, en la que un niño llamado Bastián Baltasar Bux —nombre gallardo ¿verdad?— luego de..more
Jun 05, 2007Blake Gafford rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
****All Time Favorite Book****
As another reviewer so rightly pointed out: This is a book lover's dream, a book that never ends.
Like I always say, a picture is worth 1000 words, but a mental picture is worth 1000 times more. Words cannot ever capture what's in a picture, there's always something more, and yet pictures themselves never quite capture something as well as the imagination. People always say that movie version of the book is never as good as the book was, and the reason is that the i..more
Jun 12, 2015Carmine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Il nulla di fronte a voi, la fantasia in voi
L'affabulazione fantastica diventa cartina tornasole di un'umanità messa al palo dal Nulla - inarrestabile fagocitatore di sogni e speranze -, la cui resistenza è impossibile perché impossibile è il tentativo di arginare il declino dell'immaginazione.
La bellezza di un'opera come 'La storia infinita' non risiede solo nel vivace caleidoscopio di meraviglie che si dischiudono capitolo dopo capitolo, foriere di paesaggi meravigliosi e antri oscuri in cui..more
Dec 08, 2016Amber rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Bastian Balthazar Bux is a shy, awkward, and plump little boy who is tired of being bullied in school. One blustery stormy day Bastien goes inside of an antique bookstore and discovered a mysterious book called the Neverending Story. When the bookshop owner Mr. Coreander is not looking, Bastien steals the book and hides in the attic of his school to read it. It is only when he begins to read the Neverending Story that his adventure truly begins. What happens next? Read the book for yourself and..more
Jan 18, 2015SMLauri rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: 2015, clásicos, fantasía-ciencia-ficción, favorites
Un libro genial. Quizá flojea un poco al final, pero es que la primera parte es muy buena. Atreyu y Fújur entran en mi lista de personajes literarios favoritos.
Le doy un 9.
Mar 30, 2008Corinne Edwards rated it liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: 2007, young-adult, fantasy, see-the-movie, books-and-reading, translated, dragons
Perhaps the reason I just did not love this book is that I was absolutely in love with the movie when I was young. I love the idea of a reader being taken to the land of the book he's reading. For me, the first 1/3 of this book was wonderful, just what I fondly remembered from my beloved movie version - and actually, a bit more fleshed out. The movie makes a bit more sense having read the book. However, I couldn't believe when I got to the end of what I knew of the story that I still had about 2..more
Jan 16, 2017Daniel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Knjiga citana kada sam bio daleko mladji, odgledani svi filmovi, i sada ponovo procitana knjiga i jos uvek podjednako magicno i zabavno kao i ranije.
Nema sta puno da se kaze, odlicna knjiga za ljubitelje citanja sa puno maste i fantazije. Mirna preporuka za sve od 7 do 107 godina :)
Jan 05, 2008Wicked Incognito Now rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: childrens-book
Well, this is an 'out-there' book, so I can see how it wouldn't be for everyone, but...
I can't figure out how I got to 33yo and never read this book! I just read it with my daughters and we absolutely loved it. It's a fantastic romp filled with lessons that every child can benefit from: the nature of individuality and wish-fullment, how wishing is impossible without personal change, how personal glorification is empty, the nature of fantasy vs. reality. How fantasy can be turned into lies by t..more
Feb 20, 2013Jonathan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I must have read this at least 10 times as a child. I still consider it to be one of the great works of 'children's' literature - it should be ranked with Alice in Wonderland and similar masterpieces. It is profoundly moving as a work dealing with grief and loss, memory and creativity should be. It is meta fictional in a way which, for me, no other book has ever approached - I will never forget being 10 years old and reading as Bastian and the Princess turn and look at me reading them..I felt m..more
Aug 01, 2016Jules added it · review of another edition
Terminar el libro es como salir de Fantasía, uno quiere volver a vivir aventuras de las que siempre se sale victorioso. Pero las historias de aquí tienen ese aire trágico, en el que se sale perdiendo, abandonado y dolorido. Dejemos elegir al amor.
Mar 01, 2019Valeria R rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
'Ogni vera storia è una Storia infinita'
Nov 19, 2010Marco Tamborrino rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Questo è il mio libro preferito. Lo ritengo il manifesto in sé della fantasia, della parola fantasy e del suo genere. La maggior parte dei lettori di questo genere considera J. R. R. Tolkien il Re del fantasy, il maestro, il sommo, l'impareggiabile e bla bla bla. Ma ricordiamoci che fantasy vuol dire fantasia, e nella Storia Infinita c'è amore per tutto ciò che è fantastico e tutto ciò che è umano. In questo romanzo, uno dei pochissimi di Michael Ende, troviamo la ricerca di un bambino; una rice..more
Feb 06, 2010Lisa Vegan rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: childrens, fiction, speculative-fiction, young-adult, groups-buddies, orphaned-and-quasi-orphaned-kids, reviewed, books-about-books, novel, 1-also-at-librarything
This is a rather brilliant book and I could see it being a life changing book for some readers.
It’s about reality & fantasy, escape, power, free will, friendship, individuality, isolation, grief, choices, wishes, courage, growth, altruism, friendship, change, self acceptance, meaning, memory, identity, love, introspection, and imagination & stories.
From the beginning, it reminded me of The Lord of the Rings and The Phantom Tollbooth, and other books too.
Even though I knew this formula, I..more
Nov 18, 2012Kristalia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: age-young-adult, type-standalone-story, own-physical-copy, favorites, reviewed, cut-my-heart-out, made-me-smile-or-laugh, unique-or-different-story, why-u-no-longer-u-make-me-sad
Final rating: 5/5 stars
“Every real story is a never ending story.”

This review will be hard to write because I read the translation of this on my language, and my language tends to write names as how they would have sounded as spoken. So I have no idea how to write the names but I think i'll stuck with original names (on German).
This book is a classic of literature - and Michael Ende, German author, did fantastic job with it. It became popular when it came out, and became even more popular..more
Aug 08, 2015Francesca rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Ho visto il film da bambina e mi sono avvicinata al libro solo recentemente. Contrariamente a ciò che mi capita quando leggo un libro dopo averne visto la trasposizione cinematografica, sono rimasta piacevolmente sorpresa: la storia di Atreiu è solo una piccola parte di una narrazione ben più ampia, che passa anche attraverso e soprattutto i mutamenti del sentire di Bastiano, impreparato esploratore/demiurgo di un mondo suggestivo e coinvolgente, che, seppur si fa plasmare da lui, esiste al di f..more
Sep 02, 2013Maria (Mhemnoch) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Varias re lecturas!
Como decía con Momo, Ende siempre fue grande!
Tenía la gran cualidad de hacer que sus libros tomaran significados completamente diferentes según la edad de lectura, pero sin dejar de ser entretenidos y una buena historia.
Para mi, lleno de metáforas y de enseñanzas. Sin duda, libro de cabecera y recomendado para cualquier edad.
Nov 25, 2009unknown rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: personal-collection, seen-on-film, grade-school-books, 2012
I think the last time I read this (when I was about 10), I stopped when I got to the end of the movie's plot, which is about halfway through. That makes sense, because all the thematic stuff is in part two, and it's fascinating and fairly complex, and I think I would have found it boring and confusing as a fifth grader, because I don't know if that's quite the right time for a deconstruction of the hero myth and a fable about the perils of power and leadership.
But.. that's all really good stuff..more
May 27, 2019Claudia / BeautyButterflies rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Tatsächlich habe ich als Kind/Teenager den Film gesehen, aber nie das Buch gelesen. Das musste jetzt endlich mal geändert werden.
Die Geschichte ist wirklich fantastisch und welcher Bücherwurm hat es sich nicht schon einmal gewünscht in ein Buch richtig eintauchen zu können und die Geschichten selbst zu erleben?! Genau das passiert Bastian.
Ein magisches und tolles Buch, welches für mich allerdings im Mittelteil ein paar Längen hatte und es mir zu viele 'Magische Wesen' waren, auch wusste ich nic..more
Feb 02, 2018StefanP rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Bilo je neizmjerno zadovoljstvo pročitati Beskrajnu priču. Gradacija svijeta Fantazije i likova je tako osjećajno i maštovito pretočena na papir da je nemoguće ostati ravnodušan. Beskrajna priča je vanvremenska, eskapistička, poetizovana uzbudljivim avanturama neobičnih ljudi iz sasvim neobičnih života. Endeova Fantazija je oslikana umjetnošću bez ikakvog lamenta, stvarajući razboritost. Na početku svakog poglavlja knjigu krase ilustracije koje na jednostavan i lijep način prikazuju bića Fantazi..more
Nov 19, 2016martin eden rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: children-s-books, fantasy, favorites, english
What an amazing story! It's definitely one of my favourite books. Micheal Ende has a really powerful writing style: it is really impressive how he is manipulating the reader, always surprising him with unpredictable tricks. His writing style is incredible, inviting us to dive deeper in our own fantastic world. It's the true balance between reality and the book world: to plunge deeper in the imaginary world to come back braver, wiser and a grown-up while never forgetting the child inside. His mis..more
Aug 31, 2015Yukino rated it really liked it · review of another edition
LETTURA DI GRUPPO E&L
Grazie ragazze per averlo votato.
L'ho finto ieri notte. E'stato davvero emozionante.
Sono davvero contenta di averlo letto finalmente. Ho sempre visto solo il film, ma i libro è molto meglio. Si lo so, si dice semrpe così, però questa volta è proprio vero. Anche perchè il film è solo la prima metà del libro e non è neanche fedele. Alcune cose sono diverse, sembrano cose da poco e invece secondo me cambiano il messaggio del libro. Non dimenticherò mai l'incontro di Bastia..more
Mar 29, 2013Joaquin Garza rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: mis-libros-top, ciencia-ficción-y-fantasía, favorites
El título de esta reseña debería ser: 'La fantasía triunfante'.
Me encanta recordar cómo me sentí la primera vez que leí La Historia Sin Fin. Tenía doce años y me lo dieron en un intercambio navideño, a petición mía. Recuerdo la emoción mezclada con terrible mortificación al saber que la película que había visto desde muy pequeño sólo era la mitad del libro, y que esas ilustraciones de Roswitha Quadflieg, tan místicas y extrañas con los nombres de los capítulos sugerían una historia mucho más gra..more
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The NeverEnding Story
Directed byWolfgang Petersen
Produced byBernd Eichinger
Dieter Geissler
Screenplay by
  • Wolfgang Petersen
Based on
The Neverending Story
by
Starring
Narrated byAlan Oppenheimer
Music by
CinematographyJost Vacano
Edited byJane Seitz
Production
company
Distributed by
  • (West Germany)
  • (United States)
  • 6 April 1984 (West Germany)
  • 20 July 1984 (United States)
94 minutes[1]
CountryWest Germany
LanguageEnglish
BudgetDM 60 million (~US$27 million)
Box officeUS$100 million

The NeverEnding Story (German: Die Unendliche Geschichte) is a 1984 English-language Germanfantasy film directed and co-written by Wolfgang Petersen (in his first English-language film), and based on the novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. The film was produced by Bernd Eichinger and Dieter Giessler. It stars Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Patricia Hayes, Sydney Bromley, Gerald McRaney, Moses Gunn, and Alan Oppenheimer as the voices of both Falkor and Gmork (as well as other characters). The film follows a boy who happens upon a magical book that tells of a young warrior who is given the task of stopping the Nothing, a dark force, from engulfing the mystical world of Fantasia.

At the time of its release, it was the most expensive film produced outside the United States or the Soviet Union. The film was the first in The NeverEnding Story film series.[2] The film adapts only the first half of the book, and consequently does not convey the message of the title as it was portrayed in the novel. The second half of the book was subsequently used as a rough basis for the second film, The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter. The third film, The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from Fantasia, features an original plot not based on the book.

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Plot[edit]

Bastian Balthazar Bux is a shy and outcast bibliophile ten-year-old raised by his widowed father, teased by bullies from school. On his way to school, he hides from the bullies in a bookstore, interrupting the grumpy bookseller, Carl Conrad Coreander. Bastian asks about one of the books he sees, called 'The Neverending Story', but Mr. Coreander advises against it. With his curiosity piqued, Bastian seizes the book, leaving a note promising to return it, and hides in the school's attic to read. The book describes the fantasy world of Fantasia slowly being devoured by a malevolent force called 'The Nothing'. Fantasia's ruler, the Childlike Empress, has fallen ill, and the young warrior Atreyu is tasked to discover the cure, believing that once the Empress is well, the Nothing will no longer be a threat. Atreyu is given a medallion named the Auryn that can guide and protect him in the quest. As Atreyu sets out, the Nothing summons Gmork, a vicious and highly intelligent wolf-like creature, to kill Atreyu.

Atreyu's quest directs him to the turtle-like adviser Morla the Ancient One in the Swamps of Sadness. Though the Auryn protects Atreyu, his beloved horse Artax is lost to the swamp, and he continues alone. Morla does not have the answers Atreyu seeks, but directs him to the Southern Oracle, ten thousand miles distant. Atreyu succumbs to exhaustion trying to escape the Swamps but is saved by the luckdragon Falkor. Falkor takes him to the home of two gnomes that live near the entrance to the Southern Oracle. The gnomes explain that Atreyu will face various trials before reaching the Oracle. Atreyu gets past the first trial, but is perplexed by the second trial, a mirror that shows the viewer's true self, reveals a boy which Bastian recognizes as himself. Atreyu eventually meets the Southern Oracle who tells him the only way to save the Empress is to find a human child to give her a new name, beyond the boundaries of Fantasia. Atreyu and Falkor flee before the Nothing consumes the Southern Oracle. In flight, Atreyu is knocked from Falkor's back into the Sea of Possibilities, losing the Auryn in the process. He wakes on the shore of the abandoned ruins, where Gmork reveals himself, having been lying in wait. Gmork explains that Fantasia represents humanity's imagination and is thus without boundaries, while the Nothing is a manifestation of the loss of hopes and dreams. Atreyu fends off and kills Gmork as the Nothing begins to consume the ruins.

Falkor, who had managed to locate the Auryn, rescues Atreyu in time. The two find themselves in a void with only small fragments of Fantasia remaining, and fear they have failed when they spot the Empress' Ivory Tower among the fragments. Inside, Atreyu apologizes for failing the Empress, but she assures him he has succeeded in bringing to her a human child who has been following his quest: Bastian. She further explains that, just as Bastian is following Atreyu's story, 'others' are following Bastian's, making this part of the neverending story. As the Nothing begins to consume the Tower, the Empress pleads directly to Bastian to call out her new name, but in amazement that he himself has been incorporated into the story as the child they were looking for, he denies the events as just being a story. Atreyu's death spurs Bastian to pronounce the name he has chosen before losing consciousness: 'Moon Child'. Bastian awakes with the Empress, who presents him with a grain of sand, the sole remnant of Fantasia. The Empress tells Bastian that he has the power to bring Fantasia back with his imagination. Bastian re-creates Fantasia, and as he flies on Falkor's back, he sees the land and its inhabitants restored, and that Atreyu has been reunited with Artax. When Falkor asks what his next wish will be, Bastian then brings Falkor back to the real world to chase down the bullies from before. The film ends with the narration that Bastian had many more wishes and adventures, and adds: 'but that's another story'.

Cast[edit]

Falkor the luckdragon
  • Barret Oliver as Bastian Balthazar Bux.
  • Noah Hathaway as Atreyu.
  • Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress, to whom Bastian gives the new name of 'Moon Child'.
  • Patricia Hayes as Urgl, Engywook's wife and a healer.
  • Sydney Bromley as Engywook, a gnomish scientist.
  • Gerald McRaney as Mr. Bux, Bastian's widowed, workaholic father.
  • Moses Gunn as Cairon, a servant of the Empress.
  • Alan Oppenheimer as the voices of Falkor, Gmork, Rockbiter, and the Narrator (the latter three are uncredited).
  • Thomas Hill as Carl Conrad Coreander, a grumpy bookseller.
  • Deep Roy as Teeny Weeny, a messenger riding on a racing snail.
  • Tilo Prückner as Nighthob, a messenger riding a narcoleptic bat.
  • Darryl Cooksey, Drum Garrett, and Nicholas Gilbert as Ethan, Todd, and Lucas, three bullies who torment Bastian.

Production[edit]

The adaptation only covered the first half of the book. The majority of the film was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich, except for the street scenes and the school interior in the real world, which were shot in Vancouver, Canada (the Gastown Vancouver Steam Clock can be seen in the bully chase scene at the end of the film as the three bullies are chased down Cambie Street past the steam clock at the intersection of Water Street and then on down Blood Alley[3]),[4] and the beach where Atreyu falls, which was filmed at Monsul Beach in San Jose, Almería, Spain.

Music[edit]

The film score of The NeverEnding Story was composed by Klaus Doldinger of the German jazz group Passport. The theme song of the English version of the film was composed by Giorgio Moroder with lyrics by Keith Forsey, and performed by Christopher 'Limahl' Hamill, once the lead singer of Kajagoogoo, and Beth Anderson. Released as a single in 1984, it peaked at No. 4 on the UK singles chart, No. 6 on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has been covered by Armonite, The Birthday Massacre, Creamy, Dragonland, Kenji Haga, New Found Glory, and Dustin and Suzie from the Netflix series Stranger Things. More recent covers were done by Norwegiansynthpop group Echo Image on their 2001maxi-singleSkulk and by Germantechno group Scooter on their 2007 album Jumping All Over the World. This Limahl song, along with other 'techno-pop' treatments to the soundtrack, is not present in the German version of the film, which features Doldinger's orchestral score exclusively.

In 1994, Italianhouse music group Club House released the song 'Nowhere Land,' featuring Carl, which combines the melody of the tune 'Bastian's Happy Flight' with original lyrics.

An official soundtrack album was released featuring Doldinger's score and Moroder's theme tune (Moroder also rescored several scenes for the version released outside Germany).[5] The track listing (Doldinger is responsible for everything from track 6 onwards) is as follows:

The NeverEnding Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
No.TitleLength
1.'The NeverEnding Story'3:32
2.'Swamps of Sadness'1:57
3.'Ivory Tower'3:10
4.'Ruined Landscape'3:03
5.'Sleepy Dragon'3:59
6.'Bastian's Happy Flight'3:16
7.'Fantasia'0:56
8.'Atreyu's Quest'2:52
9.'Theme of Sadness'2:43
10.'Atreyu Meets Falkor'2:31
11.'Mirror Gate - Southern Oracle'3:10
12.'Gmork'0:29
13.'Moon Child'1:24
14.'AURYN'2:20
15.'Happy Flight'1:21

In Germany, an album featuring Doldinger's score was released.

Die Unendliche Geschichte — Das Album
No.TitleLength
1.'Flug auf dem Glücksdrachen (Flight of the Luckdragon)'3:12
2.'Die Unendliche Geschichte (Titelmusik) (The NeverEnding Story (Main Title))'2:44
3.'Im Haulewald (In the Howling Forest)'3:01
4.'Der Elfenbeinturm (The Ivory Tower)'1:54
5.'Atréjus Berufung – AURYN Thema (Atreyu's Quest - AURYN Theme)'2:47
6.'Phantásien (Fantasia)'0:52
7.'Artax's Tod (The Death of Artax)'1:13
8.'Die Sümpfe der Traurigkeit (The Swamps of Sadness)'2:39
9.'Atréju's Flug (Atreyu's Flight)'2:27
10.'Die uralte Morla (Morla, the Ancient One)'2:27
11.'Das südliche Orakel (The Southern Oracle)'3:19
12.'Die drei magischen Tore (The Three Magic Gates)'3:25
13.'Spukstadt (Spook City)'1:37
14.'Flug zum Elfenbeinturm (Flight to the Ivory Tower)'3:02
15.'Mondenkind (Moon Child)'1:19
16.'Die kindliche Kaiserin (The Childlike Empress)'2:16
17.'Flug auf dem Glücksdrachen (Schlußtitel) (Flight of the Luckdragon (End Title))'1:19

Release[edit]

Release dates[edit]

  • 6 April 1984 in West Germany (Die unendliche Geschichte)[6]
  • 20 July 1984 in the United States (The NeverEnding Story)[7][8]
  • 6 October 1984 in Brazil (A História Sem Fim)
  • 21 November 1984 in France (L'Histoire sans fin)[9]
  • 6 December 1984 in Spain (La Historia Interminable)[10]
  • 7 December 1984 in Italy (La storia infinita)[11]
  • 4 April 1985 in the United Kingdom (The NeverEnding Story)[12]

Box office[edit]

The film performed very well at the box office, grossing US$100 million worldwide against a production budget of DM 60 million (approximately US$27 million at the time). Almost five million people went to see it in Germany, a number rarely achieved by German productions, resulting in a gross of about US$20 million domestically. It also grossed a similar amount in the United States; only a modest sum in the American market, which director Wolfgang Petersen ascribed to the film's European sensibilities.[13]

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Critical reception[edit]

The film has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 80% based on reviews from 40 critics. The site's critical consensus reads: 'A magical journey about the power of a young boy's imagination to save a dying fantasy land, The NeverEnding Story remains a much-loved kids' adventure.'[14]Metacritic gives the film a score of 46/100 based on reviews from 10 critics.[15]

Film critic Roger Ebert gave it three out of four stars and praised its visual effects, saying that 'an entirely new world has been created' because of them,[16] a comment echoed by Variety.[2] Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend referred to it as 'One of a scant few true Fantasy masterpieces'.[14]

Vincent Canby panned the film as a 'graceless, humorless fantasy for children' in a 1984 review in The New York Times. Canby's criticism charged that parts of the film 'sounded like 'The Pre-Teenager's Guide to Existentialism'. He further criticized the 'tacky' special effects, and that the construction of the dragon looked like 'an impractical bathmat'.[17]

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Film vs. novel[edit]

Ende felt that this adaptation's content deviated so far from the spirit of his book that he requested that production either be halted or the film's title be changed; when the producers did neither, he sued them and subsequently lost the case.[18] Ende called the film a 'gigantic melodrama of kitsch, commerce, plush and plastic' [Ein 'gigantisches Melodram aus Kitsch, Kommerz, Plüsch und Plastik'].[19]

Accolades[edit]

Wins
  • 1984 - Bambi Award for: National film
  • 1984 - Goldene Leinwand (Golden Screen Award)
  • 1985 - Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor (Noah Hathaway)
  • 1985 - Brazilian Film Award for: Best Production
  • 1985 - Film Award in Gold for: Best Production Design
Nominations
  • 1985 - Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film and Saturn Award for Best Music
  • 1985 - International Fantasy Film Award for: Best Film
  • 1985 - Young Artist Award for: Best Family Motion Picture, Best Young Actor, Best Young Supporting Actress.

Home media[edit]

LaserDisc[edit]

The film was released by Warner Bros. on LaserDisc with a digital stereo soundtrack in 1985.

A widescreen laserdisc was released on 28 August 1991; no special features were included.

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DVD[edit]

The Region 1DVD was first released in 2001 by Warner Bros, containing only the North American release of the film. The only audio option is a 2.0 stereo mix in either English or Spanish. The theatrical trailer is the lone extra feature presented.

There is also a quite lavish 2003 European version, which is a two-disc special edition with packaging shaped like the book from the film, and containing both the North American and German releases of the film. Various extras, such as a 45-minute documentary, music video, and galleries, are presented on the second disc.[20] However, there is no English audio for the German version of the film. This edition has gone out of print. The standard single-disc edition is also available for the Region 2 market.

A Dutch import has also appeared on the Internet in various places, which not only contains the North American release of the film, but also includes a remastered DTSsurround sound track, which is not found in either the German or the Region 1 releases.

In 2008, Czech- and Slovak-language DVD versions appeared in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Blu-ray[edit]

The first Blu-ray release was a region-free Dutch edition on 24 March 2007.

On 2 March 2010, Warner released a Region A Blu-ray edition of the film. The disc includes a lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround track, which marks the first time a 5.1 surround track has been included in a US home video version of the film. No special features or theatrical trailer are included.[21]

Recent German releases feature the original Klaus Doldinger soundtrack with the original English audio track.

On 7 October 2014, a 30th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray was released, which duplicates the DTS surround track of its predecessor. Originally described as a 'newly' remastered version of the film, Warner released a statement indicating that 'the only remastered version is The NeverEnding Story II', while not elaborating further on this current US release.[22] The 30th Anniversary Edition contains the original theatrical trailer, a commentary track by director Wolfgang Petersen, documentaries and interviews from both 1984 and 2014, and a German-language/English-subtitled feature detailing the digital restoration process of the film.

Legacy[edit]

The film has since been an inspiration in popular culture.

Die Unendliche Geschichte Stream

Music[edit]

  • Atreyu, an American metal band, derived their name from the character of Atreyu.
  • Bayside, an American rock band, has used quotes from the film as titles of their songs. Examples include 'They look like strong hands' and 'They're not horses, they're unicorns'.
  • Rooney, an American rock band, made reference to the film in the song 'I'm Shakin' ('I tossed and turned all night 'cause I was looking for an ending / This was so because I watched all day The NeverEnding Story with Atreyu')
  • New Found Glory, an American pop punk band, covered the film's theme song on their album, From the Screen to Your Stereo.
  • Vetusta Morla, a Spanish indie-rock band, derived their name from the character of Morla the Ancient One ('vetusta' means 'ancient' in Spanish).
  • The Aquabats, an American rock band, describe Falkor's potential romantic life in their song 'Luck Dragon Lady!' on the album Hi-Five Soup!.
  • Korn's album The Nothing is named directly in reference to the Nothing in the film. Korn frontman Jonathan Davis chose the title as he was still struggling with the death of his estranged wife Deven Davis. Jonathan had said '“I was struggling with the thing that’s chasing me – that’s always fucking with me. I tried to give it a name and it just fit.'[23]

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Television[edit]

  • Peter Griffin was seen riding on Falkor during cutaway gags in two episodes of Family Guy; first in 'Breaking Out is Hard to Do', and again in 'HTTPete'.
  • In 2019, the theme song for the film was incorporated into the final episode of the third season of the science fictionthriller show Stranger Things, which takes place in 1985, furthering its status as a staple of 1980spop culture.[24]
  • Homestar Runner sings a short jingle about a 'Neverending Soda' to the tune of the theme song.

Problems securing rights for a remake (2009-2011)[edit]

In 2009, it was reported that Warner Bros., The Kennedy/Marshall Company and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way were in the early stages of creating another adaptation of Ende's novel. They intend to 'examine the more nuanced details of the book' rather than remake the original film by Petersen.[25] In 2011, producer Kathleen Kennedy said that problems securing the rights to the story may mean a second adaptation is 'not meant to be.'[26]

References[edit]

  1. ^'THE NEVER ENDING STORY (U)'. British Board of Film Classification. 26 June 1984.
  2. ^ ab'The Neverending Story Review'. Variety. 31 December 1983.
  3. ^'The NeverEnding Story Movie Filming Locations - The 80s Movies Rewind'. www.fast-rewind.com.
  4. ^Wolfgang Petersen (2014). The NeverEnding Story: 30th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray commentary. Warner Bros. Pictures.
  5. ^'Klaus Doldinger / Original Soundtrack - Never Ending Story'. AllMusic.
  6. ^'Die unendliche Geschichte'. www.filmstarts.de (in German).
  7. ^Movies - Theater Guide New York Magazine. 25 July 1984, p.64
  8. ^'Around Town'. New York Magazine. 25 July 1984.
  9. ^'L'Histoire sans fin - film 1984 - AlloCiné' (in French). AlloCiné.
  10. ^'30 años de 'La Historia Interminable' - Noticias de cine'. www.cinemascomics.com (in Spanish).
  11. ^'6 dicembre 1984: nei cinema italiani si vola a Fantasìa con La Storia Infinita'. DiRegiovani (in Italian). 6 December 2016.
  12. ^'The NeverEnding Story - Release date in UK'. www.filmdates.co.uk.
  13. ^Haase, Christine (2007). When Heimat Meets Hollywood: German Filmmakers and America, 1985-2005. Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture. 14. Camden House Publishing. p. 80. ISBN9781571132796.
  14. ^ ab'The Neverending Story'. Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media.
  15. ^'The NeverEnding Story'. Metacritic.
  16. ^Ebert, Roger (1 January 1984). 'Roger Ebert reviews The Neverending Story'. Roger Ebert.
  17. ^Canby, Vincent (20 July 1984). 'The Neverending Story (1984)'. The New York Times.
  18. ^Bentley, Logan (27 August 1984). 'An Irate Michael Ende Blasts the 'Disgusting' Film Made from His Best-Seller, The Neverending Story'. People.
  19. ^'Ende gegen die 'Unendliche Geschichte''. Der Spiegel. 2 April 1984. p. 274.
  20. ^'Review of: The Neverending Story - Special Edition'.
  21. ^'The NeverEnding Story Blu-ray: Die unendliche Geschichte'. Blu-ray.
  22. ^'The NeverEnding Story Blu-ray: 30th Anniversary Edition'. Blu-ray.
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  24. ^Gooden, Tai (4 July 2019). 'The Song Dustin & Suzie Sing In 'Stranger Things' From 'The Neverending Story' Was An Epic Choice For The Teen Couple'. Bustle. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  25. ^Zeitchik, Steven (25 February 2009). ''NeverEnding Story' gets new beginning'. The Hollywood Reporter.
  26. ^'ABOUT THAT NEVERENDING STORY REMAKE..'IGN. 16 December 2011.

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