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The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Synopsis

C.S. Lewis’s classic adventure follows the exploits of the four Pevensie siblings - Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter - in World War II England who enter the world of Narnia through a magical wardrobe while playing a game of ‘hide-and-seek’ in the rural country home of an elderly professor. Once there, the children discover a charming, peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs, fauns, centaurs and giants that has become a world cursed to eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Under the guidance of a noble and mystical ruler, the lion Aslan, the children fight to overcome the White Witch’s powerful hold over Narnia in a spectacular, climactic battle that will free Narnia from Jadis’s icy spell forever.

Details

Year
2006
Type of project
Features
Running time
140 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Andrew Adamson
Producer
Philip Steuer
Executive Producer
Philip Steuer
Editor
Sim Evan-Jones, Jim May
Screenwriter
Andrew Adamson, Anne Peacock, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Director of Photography
Donald McAlpine
Composer
Harry Gregson-Williams
Principal cast
Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Rupert Everett, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Dawn French

Genre

Literary Adaptation Children’s Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media

Sales Company

Buena Vista International

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