Conductor Claudio Abbado had the original idea for this unusual visual version of Prokofiev's popular musical story, "Peter and the Wolf". Co-directed by Roger Law, one of the creators of Spitting Image, the film uses a combination of puppets and actors (Roy Hudd stars as the composer himself, and 10-year-old newcomer Henry Feagins as Peter) to create a visual story which matches the musical language of the piece.
Many of the puppets are life-size, and other roles are played by the innovative Theatre de Complicite. Abbado conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe playing Prokofiev's March in B flat minor, the Overture on Hebrew Themes and the Classical Symphony as well as his children's classic.
The narration is by Sting.

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