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The Man Who Planted Trees (French: L'homme qui plantait des arbres) is a 1987 Canadian short animated film directed by Frédéric Back. It is based on Jean Giono's 1953 short story The Man Who Planted Trees. This 30-minute film was distributed in two versions, French and English, narrated respectively by actors Philippe Noiret and Christopher Plummer, and produced by Radio-Canada.

The Man Who Planted Trees
Film poster
Directed by	Frédéric Back
Written by	Jean Roberts
Based on	The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Produced by	Frédéric Back Hubert Tison
Narrated by	Philippe Noiret Christopher Plummer
Edited by	Norbert Pickering
Music by	Normand Roger
Production companies	CBC NFB Societe Radio-Canada[1]
Release date	May 1987 (1987-05)
Running time	30 minutes
Country	Canada
Languages	French English

Awards

The film won the Academy Award (1988) for Best Animated Short Film.[2][3] It also competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.[4] The film won the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Animation at the 1988 Yorkton Film Festival.[5]

In 1994, it was voted number 44 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.[6]

References

External links

Media related to Inspired by the film at Wikimedia Commons

• The Man Who Planted Trees at IMDb
• The short film The Man Who Planted Trees is available for free download at the Internet Archive.
• MUBI

Further reading

• Olivier Cotte (2007) Secrets of Oscar-winning animation: Behind the scenes of 13 classic short animations. (Making of '"The Man Who Planted Trees") Focal Press. ISBN 978-0-240-52070-4

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