The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear

"Accompanying adults may enjoy mapping other political parables on to the plot"

The Guardian
  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Philip Einstein Lipski, Amalie Næsby Fick, Jørgen Lerdam
  • Denmark 2018
  • 80 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Life peacefully passes by in Sunnytown until Mitcho and Sebastian find a message in a bottle. The Bottle is from the missing Mayor of Sunnytown with a message that he is on The Mysterious Island and has made a great discovery. The two friends must embark on a great journey to help save the Mayor and bring him home; in the process they uncover something special - a Giant Pear.

This beautifully animated tale, based on the picture book by Jakob Martin Strid, captures all the rich imagination and humor of the book.

English, with Hebrew subtitles


  • Director Philip Einstein Lipski, Amalie Næsby Fick, Jørgen Lerdam
  • Production Thomas Heinesen, Trine Heidegaard
  • Script Bo Hr. Hansen, after the book by Jakob Martin Strid
  • Cinematography Niels Grønlykke
  • Editing Hans Perk, Anders Sørensen
  • Music Fridolin Nordso
  • Festivals Berlinale
  • Voices Alfred Bjerre Larsen, Peter Frödin, Henrik Koefoed, Peter Plaugborg
  • Source LevelK, Frederiksberg