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The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a american film of genre Fantasy directed by Michael Powell
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1955)
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Add to a movie listThe Sorcerer's Apprentice (1955) is a short film made by Michael Powell for Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) West German television.
It is the Goethe story made famous by Walt Disney's animated film Fantasia where Mickey Mouse runs amok as the Sorcerer's Apprentice. But here it is presented as a ballet performed by the Frankfurt Opera with Sonia Arova as the solo dancer. There are other character dancers appearing as various items and creatures and of course the Sorcerer himself. But none of these are named on the credits and nobody has managed to find out who they were, as yet. The English-language narrator is also uncredited.
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Ballet L'Apprenti sorcier dansé par Sonia Arova et le corps de ballet de l'Opéra d'État de Hambourg.Comments
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