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Dragonslayer(Movie, 1981)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 48min | Genres: Fantasy, Adventure
DragonslayerRating: 3.3/5 (with 112112 votes)
Dragonslayer is a 1981 American dark fantasy film directed by Matthew Robbins from a screenplay he co-wrote with Hal Barwood. It stars Peter MacNicol, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam, and Caitlin Clarke. It was a co-production between Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Productions, where Paramount handled North American distribution and Disney's Buena Vista International handled international distribution. The story is set in a fictional medieval kingdom where a young wizard encounters challenges as he hunts a dragon, Vermithrax Pejorative. It is the second joint production between Paramount and Disney, after Popeye (1980), and is more mature than most contemporary Disney films. Because the audience expected the Disney name to be solely children's entertainment, the film's violence, adult themes and brief nudity were somewhat controversial, thou... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Dragonslayer

Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

About Dragonslayer

The sorcerer and his apprentice Galen are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact that the King himself made with the dragon to protect his kingdom.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Europe
Derivative works/Adaptions: "Dragonslayer" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/30/1982 (World premiere: 06/26/1981)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"El dragón del lago de fuego"
"Le Dragon du lac de feu"

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:8643, Added: 02/18/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024