American Cinematographer - August 1984 - 67

"The world needs a miracle," said
Bernd Eichinger, head of Neue
Constantin Productions, as he be¬

work

gan

on

The Neverending

Story. With a budget set at $25
million, the largest in German film
history, this miracle was about to
true. The "miracle" began
with the design of spectacular sets,
the full range of sophisticatd mo¬
come

tion picture and video technolo¬
gies, and with the experience of a
staff of 200 specialists - all
gathered at Bavaria Studios in
Munich to bring to life the fantas¬
tic world of Michael Ende's
worldwide bestseller, The Nev¬

erending Story.
1 had been offered this

project originally in early 1982,
while I was working on Das Boot.
However,

once

completed,

a very

Das Boot

was

long and

very

Above: Vacano used
aircraft landing
lights to create
shafts of light in the

difficult shoot, the prospect of an¬
other even longer and even more
difficult project, one full of all
sorts of special effects, didn't at¬
tract

Just

me,

over

Ruins. Left: Falkor,
the luckdragon who
aids

Atreyu,

was a

40 foot "miniature."
Below: Bastion

and I refused the job.
a year later I received a

(Barret Oliver)
reading the magical

call from my

friend director Wolf¬
Petersen, who had accepted
the job of directing The Neverend¬
ing Story, a film already in produc¬

book in the attic of

gang

his school.

tion. After the

success of Das
Boot, and the excellent working

relationship we had on that film, I
jumped at the chance to shoot the
film.
The clock

already
ticking when I signed on. A sizable
team of specialists had been at
work for several months designing
and constructing the story's fabu¬
lous

creatures.

was

Petersen and I be¬

work immediately with a
whole new concept for the film,
with a new shooting script, new
storyboards, new everything. Sto¬
ryboards were a new experience
for us, necessitated by the enor¬

gan

mous

number of models, process

shots,

creatures,

effects

-

all in ad¬

dition to the regular human actors.
From that point on, we
sat

the

-

Petersen, Rolf Zehetbauer,

director, and me, gradually
seeing the film develop and take
shape according to all the new
art

August/September 1984

American

Cinematographer

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