Princes et Princesses (Princes and Princesses) is a 2000 compilation film by French animator Michel Ocelot.
The film consists of six episodes of the 1989 French silhouette animation television series Ciné si.
Release Produced in 1999 by Les Armateurs and released to French cinemas on 26 January 2000, Princes et princesses became Ocelot's second feature film (following 1998's Kirikou and the Sorceress). The feature version comprises slightly edited versions of 6 of the 8 12-minute episodes, with the addition of a 1-minute intermission at the half-way point. In Japan, it was distributed on DVD-Video with the co-operation of Studio Ghibli, initially in the Ghibli Cinema Library and re-released under the Ghibli Museum Library label. The film won both the adult and children's jury awards at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival.
Home media As of November 2010, there are no known plans to release Princes et princesses in the United Kingdom or Australia. It has seen home video releases in the United States and earlier in Canada, however, where it is only available as the second disc of a Kirikou and the Sorceress two-DVD set. Both discs have English subtitles, though only for the main feature on each. Also, there is no DVD which uses the full, original, 1.5:1 aspect ratio; they are optimised for either 4:3 or 16:9 screens and playing the pillarboxed widescreen version on a 4:3 television will result in windowboxing. Country Title Format Region code Publisher Date Catalogue No. Aspect ratio Subtitles South Korea 프린스 앤 프린세스 NTSC All Daum Media 2003-05-30 DAD-158 1.37:1 fullscreen English, Korean Canada Kirikou et la sorcière NTSC 1 Alliance Atlantis 2004-12-21 1.37:1 fullscreen English, French United States Princes and Princesses NTSC 1 KimStim 2008-07-29 1.37:1 fullscreen English France Princes et princesses PAL 2 France Télévisions 2004-07-28 EDV 174 1.56:1 anamorphic widescreen English, French Japan プリンス＆プリンセス NTSC 2 Ghibli Cinema Library/Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2004-12-032007-07-18 (Re-release) VWDZ8716 1.56:1 anamorphic widescreen English, French, Japanese Taiwan 王子與公主 NTSC 3 Power International Multimedia 2005-09-30 1.37:1 fullscreen English, French, Traditional ChineseItalyPrincipi e PrincipessePAL2 Alfadiesis Edizioni Cineteca di Bologna (re-release) 2005-05-05 (first release) 2022-09-25 (re-release)4:3Italian, French
References
External links
at La Fabrique Princes et princesses at Le Palais des dessins animés
Princes et princesses review at Movierapture.com