The Happy Prince (film)

The Happy Prince is a Canadian animated film by Michael Mills on the eponymous literary fairy tales of Oscar Wilde. He appeared in 1974 as a continuation of the Oscar-nominated short film The Selfish Giant.

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The gilded statue of the Happy Prince is admired by the whole city. As a swallow, who has missed the boat on their swarm on the trip south, snapped at the statue, you tell the prince how unhappy he is, in fact, as he from his high pedestal of all the suffering of the poor inhabitants of the town can see. He asks the swallow before she flies on to bring the gems of his belt and his eyes to the poor. The swallow fulfilled his request. The prince is now blind, she decides not to leave him, and remains, despite the cold up into the winter with him. At the request of the Prince she wears the gold layer that surrounds him, and delivers them. As the swallow eventually freezes to death, breaking the leaden heart of the Happy Prince. The mayor falls suddenly on how ugly the statue has become, and letting it melt. Only the broken heart of the prince does not melt and is thrown with the dead swallow on the garbage.

In the epilogue, God asks an angel to bring him the two most precious things in the city. The angel chooses the dead swallow and the broken heart of the statue.

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