Bambi, A Life in the Woods
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Bambi, ein Leben im Walde (Bambi, A Life in the Woods) is a book by Felix Salten, first printed in 1923. Bambi is the name of the main character, a male deer beginning life as a fawn, then an adolescent spike, and finally a buck.
Felix Salten was the pen-name of Siegmund Salzmann, who was born in Budapest but grew up in Vienna.
The book and resultant movies have made the name Bambi grow in popularity, although it is nowhere close to common.
Adaptations
The story was made into an animated film by Walt Disney Productions first released in the United Kingdom on August 8, 1942. The company took the liberty of changing the species into a white-tailed deer, and of putting him into an American forest.
In 1969, a short film spoofing the Disney film, Bambi Meets Godzilla, was released.
There were two movies, Detstvo Bambi (Bambi's Childhood) and its sequel Yunost Bambi (Bambi's Youth), released in the USSR in 1985 and 1986 respectively, both were based on this book.
Text
- Salten, Felix. Bambi; a life in the woods, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1928.
- Salten, Felix. Bambi, Aladdin; Reprint edition (July 1, 1988), ISBN 067166607X
External links
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- The Big Cartoon DataBase entry for Bambi (http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=18&cartoon=Bambi)
- Bambi, the Austrian deer (http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/paschons/language_http/essays/salten.html), article by Paul A. Schons published in Kulturecke by the Germanic-American Institute, September, 2000de:Bambi (Film)