Princes et Princesses

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Princes et Princesses
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French film poster.
Directed by Michel Ocelot
Written byMichel Ocelot
Produced by Didier Brunner
Jean-François Laguionie
StarringArlette Mirapeu
Philippe Cheytion
Yves Barsacq
Edited byAnita Vilfrid
Michèle Péju
Dominique Lefever
Music byChristian Maire
Production
companies
La Fabrique
Les Armateurs
Salud Productions
Studio O
Distributed byGébéka films (France)
Release dates
  • 26 January 2000 (2000-01-26)(France)
  • 16 March 2001 (2001-03-16)(United States)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$43,379 (United States) [1]

Princes et Princesses (Princes and Princesses) is a 2000 compilation film by French animator Michel Ocelot.

Contents

The film consists of six episodes of the 1989 French silhouette animation television series Ciné si .

Release

Produced in 1999 by Les Armateurs and released to French cinemas on 26 January 2000, Princes et princesses became Ocelot's second feature film (following 1998's Kirikou and the Sorceress ). The feature version comprises slightly edited versions of 6 of the 8 12-minute episodes, [2] with the addition of a 1-minute intermission at the half-way point. In Japan, it was distributed on DVD-Video with the co-operation of Studio Ghibli, initially in the Ghibli Cinema Library and re-released under the Ghibli Museum Library label. The film won both the adult and children's jury awards at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. [3]

Home media

As of November 2010, there are no known plans to release Princes et princesses in the United Kingdom or Australia. It has seen home video releases in the United States and earlier in Canada, however, where it is only available as the second disc of a Kirikou and the Sorceress two-DVD set. Both discs have English subtitles, though only for the main feature on each. Also, there is no DVD which uses the full, original, 1.5:1 aspect ratio; they are optimised for either 4:3 or 16:9 screens and playing the pillarboxed widescreen version on a 4:3 television will result in windowboxing.

CountryTitleFormat Region code PublisherDateCatalogue №Aspect ratioSubtitles
South Korea 프린스 앤 프린세스 NTSC AllDaum Media2003-05-30DAD-1581.37:1 fullscreen English, Korean
CanadaKirikou et la sorcièreNTSC1 Alliance Atlantis 2004-12-211.37:1 fullscreenEnglish, French
United StatesPrinces and PrincessesNTSC1KimStim2008-07-29 [3] 1.37:1 fullscreen [4] English
FrancePrinces et princesses PAL 2 France Télévisions 2004-07-28EDV 1741.56:1 anamorphic widescreen English, French
Japanプリンス&プリンセスNTSC2 Ghibli Cinema Library/Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2004-12-03
2007-07-18 (Re-release)
VWDZ87161.56:1 anamorphic widescreenEnglish, French, Japanese
Taiwan 王子與公主NTSC3Power International Multimedia2005-09-301.37:1 fullscreenEnglish, French, Traditional Chinese
ItalyPrincipi e PrincipessePAL2
  • Alfadiesis
  • Edizioni Cineteca di Bologna (re-release)
  • 2005-05-05 (first release)
  • 2022-09-25 (re-release)
4:3Italian, French

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