Le Roi et L? oiseau is a film-concert creation that Chapelier Fou has been working on for a long time.
This cult animated film, completed in 1980, was created by Paul Grimault to texts by Jacques Prévert, based on Hans Christian Andersen?s The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep. A milestone in the history of animated cartoons, it was the first feature-length animated film to be made in France, and broke away from the Walt Disney style to offer philosophical reflections in a political and social fable that went beyond the traditional audience of children and teenagers. It is also a human adventure, the fruit of the close collaboration of a large number of technicians from the world of animation, trained over the decades that the creation required