Le roi et l’oiseau

This cult animated film, completed in 1980, was created by Paul Grimault to texts by Jacques Prévert, based on Hans Christian Andersen?s The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep. A milestone in the history of animated cartoons, it was the first feature-length animated film to be made in France, and broke away from the Walt Disney style to offer philosophical reflections in a political and social fable that went beyond the traditional audience of children and teenagers. It is also a human adventure, the fruit of the close collaboration of a large number of technicians from the world of animation, trained over the decades that the creation required