First episode date 1983 Number of seasons 1 Program creator Michel Ocelot | Written by Michel Ocelot Voices of Yves Arcanel Network France 2 Number of episodes 13 Narrated by Michel Ocelot | |
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Also known as 'The Impassive PrincessThe Insensitive Princess Similar Dragons et princesses, Gideon, Tales of the Night, Princes et Princesses, Les Shadoks |
The Insensitive Princess (French: La Princesse insensible) is a 1983 French animated television series written and directed by Michel Ocelot. The animation is a combination of cel and cutout animation (with the opening credits in silhouette animation) while the elaborate architectural style of the production design has been said to be reminiscent, though visual association, of Charles Perrault and Jean de La Fontaine's fairy tales; like Ocelot's Les Trois Inventeurs before it and several episodes of the later Ciné si it takes place in a literary fairy tale-like fantasy setting, specifically a palatial theater, which mixes the ornate styles of decoration and dress of the upper-classes of both the time of the Ancien Régime and the belle époque and includes such fanciful technology as a baroque-styled submarine, elements of outright fantasy such as dragons and such anachronisms as a reference to motorcycles.
It won first prize in its category at the 3rd Bourg-en-Bresse Animation Festival for Youth and the audience prize at the 6th Odense Film Festival.
Episodes
- Le Prince dompteur (The Tamer Prince)
- Le Prince jardinier (The Gardener Prince)
- Le Prince à transformations (The Transforming Prince)
- Le Prince météorologue (The Meteorologist Prince)
- Le Prince sourcier (The Dowser Prince)
- Le Prince volant (The Flying Prince)
- Le Prince sous-marin (The Submarine Prince)
- Le Prince peintre (The Painter Prince)
- Le Prince décorateur (The Decorator Prince)
- Le Prince magicien (The Magician Prince)
- Le Prince qui fait semblant (The Pretending Prince)
- Le Prince artificier (The Pyrotechnist Prince)
- Le Prince écolier (The Schoolboy Prince)