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Bambi(Movie, 1942)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 5min | Genres: Animation, Drama, Kids & Family
BambiRating: 3.5/5 (with 25742,574 votes) 946
Bambi is a 1942 American animated drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is based on the 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Austrian author and hunter Felix Salten. The film was produced by Walt Disney and directed by David Hand and a team of sequence directors. The main characters are Bambi, a white-tailed deer; his parents (the Great Prince of the forest and his unnamed mother); his friends Thumper (a pink-nosed rabbit); and Flower (a skunk); and his childhood friend and future mate, Faline. In the original book, Bambi was a roe deer, a species native to Europe; but Disney decided to base the character on a mule deer from Arrowhead, California. Illustrator Maurice "Jake" Day convinced Disney that the mule deer had large "mule-like" ears and were more common to western North America; but that the white-tail deer was more recognized throughout America. The film received three Academy Award nominations: Best Sound (Sam Slyfield), Best Song (for "Love Is a Song" sung by Donald Novis) and Original Music Score. In June 2008, the American Film Institute presented a list of its "10 Top 10"—the best ten films in each of ten classic American f... ()
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Available subtitles: German, English
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Duration: 1h 10min
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Also available at Amazon.de on: DVD Blu-ray

Awards & Nominations for Bambi

Genesis Awards Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Sound

About Bambi

Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)
Based on the work of: Felix Salten ("Bambi, A Life in the Woods")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 37 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Norwegian Bokmål (NB), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Uzbek (UZ), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 12/18/1950 (World premiere: 02/11/1942)
Appearing Characters: Bambi, Faline, Flower, Thumper, The Hunter Dogs, Friend Owl, Bambi's Mother, The Great Prince of the Forest
Dedicated to: Sidney Franklin
Producer: Walt Disney
Art Director: Tom Codrick, Robert Cormack, Al Zinnen, McLaren Stewart, Lloyd Harting, David Hilberman, John Hubley, Dick Kelsey
Performer: Donald Novis
Musical Conductor: Alexander Steinert
Other Team Members: Tyrus Wong, Maurice Noble, Art Riley, Dick Anthony, Gustaf Tenggren, Sylvia Holland, David S. Hall, Merle Cox, Bob McIntosh, Travis Johnson, Stanley Spohn, Ray Huffine, Ed Levitt, Joe Stahley, Tyrus Wong, Art Riley, Charles Henderson, Charles Wolcott, Paul Smith, Martin Provensen, Oliver Wallace
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Bambi 1"
"밤비"
"Walt Disney's Bambi"
Budget: 858,000 USD
Revenue: 267,447,150 USD (= 31,171%)

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Other movies with this title: Bambi (FR, 2013), Bambi (FI, 2015), Bambi (US, 2023)

WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:5583, Added: 02/14/2018, Last updated: 03/22/2024