The Kingdom of the Fairies

Original title: Le royaume des fées

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Georges Méliès and Marguerite Thévenard in The Kingdom of the Fairies (1903)

In this spectacular free adaptation of the popular theatre play "La Biche au Bois", the valiant Prince Bel-Azor pursues a baleful old witch to her impregnable castle, to save the beautiful y... Read allIn this spectacular free adaptation of the popular theatre play "La Biche au Bois", the valiant Prince Bel-Azor pursues a baleful old witch to her impregnable castle, to save the beautiful young Princess Azurine.In this spectacular free adaptation of the popular theatre play "La Biche au Bois", the valiant Prince Bel-Azor pursues a baleful old witch to her impregnable castle, to save the beautiful young Princess Azurine.

Director
- Georges Méliès
Writers
- Georges Méliès
- Madame d'Aulnoy
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7.3/10

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Director
- Georges Méliès
Writers
- Georges Méliès
- Madame d'Aulnoy
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Georges Méliès

Prince Bel-Azor

Marguerite Thévenard

Princess Azurine

Bleuette Bernon

Aurora

André Deed

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Durafour

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Director
- Georges Méliès
Writers
- Georges Méliès
- Madame d'Aulnoy
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Trivia
A clip of this film is featured in Hugo (2011).

Connections
Featured in Chuck: Chuck Versus the Balcony (2011)

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10/10

The sort of cute, fanciful stuff that made Georges Méliès a great filmmaker.

Georges Méliès was a marvelous filmmaker who brought movies many innovations and tricks. However, over time his films have become mostly forgotten and many seem very outdated and quaint today. But, if you are patient, they are most enjoyable when you realize how different and innovative they were for the turn of the century. And, a few, like "Fairyland" are true classics.

When the story begins, some prince (Georges Méliès) becomes engaged to a princess. But an evil witch sneaks into the palace with her imps and kidnaps the woman. So it's up to the prince to go on a grand adventure to find his betrothed and teach the wicked witch a lesson. To help him are some fairies and even King Neptune!

This is a cute and clever movie...made better by some gorgeous hand-painted cels. The overall effect is really nice and the 17 minute story seems more like a full-length movie (which it was back in 1903) than a quick short film. Well worth seeing and among the filmmaker's best.