The Selfish Giant (1972 film)
Paul Hecht: narrator
The Selfish Giant (Original Title: The Selfish Giant) is a Canadian animated film by Peter Sander after the literary fairy tale The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde. He appeared in 1971. In Germany he was first shown at the International Film Festival in Berlin in 1972, where he was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Short Film.
Action
A giant, who returns from a journey, finds in his garden in front of children playing. He sells the children and builds a wall around the garden, where he lives alone on from there. The next spring, it remains in the garden of giant cold that spring forgets him and the birds and flowers have no interest in living in the garden when there playing children. The giant is suffering from cold and feels lonely. One day the children find a hole in the wall and sneak into the garden. Immediately breaks out of the spring. The giant looks out the window on every tree a child sitting. Only one boy is too small to climb a tree. The giant lifts the boy up the tree and recognizes how unhappy that made him his selfishness. He tears down the wall and invites all children in his garden. In the following years the giant enjoys the company of children, however, sees the little boy, he has helped not again. Years later, when the giant has grown old, he sees the boy on a winter day in the only corner of the garden, in which a tree bears flowers. He recognizes his friend again and goes to him. The boy, who has stigmata on the hands and feet, invites the giant, this time in his garden, the paradise to come.
Music
The film music composed and conducted Ron Goodwin. The vocal ensemble The King's Singers took two songs for the film on Building a Wall and Years Go Over.