How the Toys Saved Christmas (1996)
La freccia azzurra
A magical movie about believing in your dreams!
When Santa's helper La Befana falls ill and must take off a Christmas Eve, she recruits Scarafoni to help deliver all the toys. No one but the toys knows is that Scarafoni plans to auction off the toys to the highest bidder, which means the toys won't make it to the children who have been good all year and deserve them. The toys decide to deliver themselves, and the story follows them as they struggle to avoid the heartless Scarafoni and to find their true homes.
- Date of release
- 1996-12-05
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (114)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Family, Animation, Fantasy
- Director
- Enzo D'Alò
Casting
- Alida Milana — Francesco (voice)
- Lella Costa — La Befana (voice)
- Monica Bertolotti — Spicciola (voice)
- Dario Fo — Scarafoni (voice)
- Roberto Stocchi — Orsacchiotto di peluche (voice)
- Vittorio Amandola — Capitano Mezza Barba (voice)
- Pino Ammendola — Pastello blu (voice), Pastello verde (voice)
- Vittorio Battarra — Capostazione (voice)
- Rodolfo Bianchi — Generale (voice)
- Fabio Boccanera — Lesto (voice)
- Marco Bolognesi — Don Juan (voice)
- Rino Bolognesi — Penna d'Argento (voice)
Interesting facts
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1
How the Toys Saved Christmas is a 1996 Italian animated film directed by Enzo D'Alò, based on the children's novel The Befana's Toyshop by Gianni Rodari.
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