A short, stop-frame animation. The film uses puppets to tell Hans Christian Andersen's tale about the song of a nightingale heard by the little kitchen girl at the Emperor of China's palace.
Richard Goolden
Emperor
Mandy Carlin
Kitchen girl
John Dalby
Death
Christine Edzard
Director
Claude Gastine
Costume Design
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music
Campbell Askew
Sound
Rotislav Doboujinsky
Production Design
Michael Gray
Hans Christian Andersen
Story
Hugh Strain
Jill Carpenter
Makeup Artist
Richard Goodwin
Producer
Christopher Challis
Director of Photography
Michel Sanvoisin
Music Arranger
