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The Little Matchgirl is a american film of genre Drama directed by Roger Allers released in USA on 7 september 2006

The Little Matchgirl (2006)

The Little Matchgirl
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Released in USA 7 september 2006
Length 7minutes
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Fantasy,    Animation
Rating77% 3.892373.892373.892373.892373.89237

The Little Matchgirl is a 2006 animated short film directed by Roger Allers and produced by Don Hahn. It is based on an original story by Hans Christian Andersen entitled The Little Girl with the Matches or The Little Match Girl, published in 1845.

Synopsis

During Christmas in Russia, an impoverished girl tries to sell matchsticks on the streets but everyone is completely indifferent towards her. Later that night, the girl huddles up in a snowy alley trying to warm herself against the cold. Eventually she decides to strike some of her remaining matches for warmth. As the matches burn, she dreams about bring in a warm home, well fed, and her grandmother the only person who was ever kind to her. Soon her grandmother finds the girl in the alley, all of her matches burnt, and carries the girl of to heaven. A comet passes through the sky, her grandmother says every time there is a shooting star someone dies, revealing that the girl's body had succumbed to hypothermia and died.

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