The NeverEnding Story (film)
Overview
 
The NeverEnding Story is a 1984 German-American epic
Epic (genre)
An epic is traditionally a genre of poetry, known as epic poetry. However in modern terms, epic is often extended to other art forms, such as novels, plays, films, and video games where the story is centered on heroic characters, and the action takes place on a grand scale, just as in epic poetry...

 fantasy film
Fantasy film
Fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered to be distinct from science fiction film and horror film, although the genres do overlap...

 based on the novel of the same name
The Neverending Story
The Neverending Story is a German fantasy novel by Michael Ende, first published in 1979. The standard English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was first published in 1983...

 written by Michael Ende
Michael Ende
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German author of fantasy and children's literature. He is best known for his epic fantasy work The Neverending Story; other famous works include Momo and Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver...

. The film was directed and co-written by Wolfgang Petersen
Wolfgang Petersen
Wolfgang Petersen is a German film director and screenwriter. His films include The NeverEnding Story, Enemy Mine, Outbreak, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, Troy, and Poseidon...

 (his first English-language film) and starred Barret Oliver
Barret Oliver
Barret Spencer Oliver is an American actor and photographer. He is best known for his role as Bastian Bux in the film adaptation of Michael Ende's novel The NeverEnding Story.-Career:...

, Noah Hathaway and Tami Stronach
Tami Stronach
Tamara "Tami" Stronach is a dancer and choreographer who has also worked as an actress.Stronach was born to Israeli and Scottish parents. Her father, David Stronach, is a renowned archeologist of ruins of Ancient Persia and a professor at UC Berkeley...

. At the time of its release, it was the most expensive film produced outside of the USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 or the USSR
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. It was then followed by two sequels: The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter is a 1990 fantasy film and sequel to The NeverEnding Story. It was directed by George T. Miller and starred Jonathan Brandis as Bastian Bux, Kenny Morrison as Atreyu, and Alexandra Johnes as the Childlike Empress. The only actor to return from the first...

and The NeverEnding Story III: Escape From Fantasia.
Bastian Bux (Barret Oliver
Barret Oliver
Barret Spencer Oliver is an American actor and photographer. He is best known for his role as Bastian Bux in the film adaptation of Michael Ende's novel The NeverEnding Story.-Career:...

), a quiet boy who loves to read, is accosted by bullies on his way to school.
Quotations

Bastian: No, not again. No, not again!

G'mork: I am G'mork. And you, whoever you are, can have the honor of being my last victim. Atreyu: I will not die easily. I am a warrior.

Atreyu: Who are you really? G'mork: I am the servant of the Power behind the nothing. I was sent to kill the only one who could have stopped the nothing. I lost him in the Swamps of Sadness. His name was Atreyu.

Falcor: Never give up and good luck will find you.

Engywook: The sphinx's eyes stay closed, until someone who does not feel his own worth tries to pass by.

Atreyu: I didn't get in touch with an earthling! The Childlike Empress: Yes, You did. He has suffered with you. He went through everything you went through, and now he has come here with you. He is very close, listening to every word, we say.

The Childlike Empress: One grain of sand. That is all that remains of my once vast empire.

 
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