"Phantasien in Halle 4/5"

Literature
Novel by Michael Ende
Books about the movie

Pfau, Ulli: Phantásien in Halle 4/5, Dt. Taschenbuch-Verlag (dtv), München, 1984, ISBN 3-423-10260-8., 168 Seiten.

The strength of this book is its pleading for the art of writing, for the original novel and his author. Ulli Pfau explains the essence of the Neverending Story, why there was such a big quarrel between Michael Ende and the production crew and why both the book and the movie became a very big success. I like this book because it describes not only the superficial the film shooting but also problems of the time of shooting and get to the root of them.

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"Eine kritisch-reflektierende Auseinandersetzung - Tagebuch und Analyse zugleich -, die das Geschehen hinter den Kulissen der Filmindustrie beschreibt, die Widersprüche im heutigen Kulturbetrieb durchleuchtet und die Faszination der "Unendlichen Geschichte" und ihres Autors ergründet."