The Seven Ravens (1937 film)

The Seven Ravens
2004 DVD cover
Directed byFerdinand Diehl
Hermann Diehl
Screenplay byPaul Diehl
Based onThe Seven Ravens
by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
Produced byPuppentrickfilm
CinematographyAlfonse Lufteck
Music byWalter Pepper
Release date
  • 2 December 1937 (1937-12-02)
Running time
53 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

The Seven Ravens (German: Die sieben Raben) is a German stop motion-animated fairy tale film directed by the Diehl brothers (Diehl Film). It was released in Germany on 2 December 1937. The film is notable for being an animated feature film based on a Grimm brothers' fairy tale of the same name, premiering only a few weeks before Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In that respect it is often cited as one of the first animated feature films.