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The Golden Compass

German title: Der goldene Kompass
Francaise title: À la croisée des mondes : La boussole d’or
Spain title: La brújula dorada
Greek title: Το αστέρι του Βορρά
Russian title: Золотой Компас
Original title: The Golden Compass

Alternative titles:
Der goldene Kompaß | To asteri tou Vorra | Το αστερι του Βορρα | À la croisée des mondes – La boussole d’or

Fantasy adventure – USA, United Kingdom
Production year: 2006
Movie length: 115 minutes

Director: Chris Weitz
Writer: Philip Pullman
Cinematograph: Henry Braham
Music: Alexandre Desplat

Movie description:

In a parallel world ruled by The Magisterium where people’s souls have animal shapes, the orphan Lyra Belaqua is educated in the Jordan College, and her uncle and Professor Lord Asriel is her tutor. Lyra accidentally overhears a conversation about a research of Lord Asriel in the North Artic and the existence of a powerful Dust that unites different worlds. When her best friend Roger is kidnapped by the evil Gobblers, Lyra promises to rescue him. She is invited to go to the North with the influent Mrs. Coulter and the Jordan’s Vice-Chancellor secretly gives her a magic golden compass capable of revealing the truth. When Lyra finds that Mrs. Coulter is the leader of the Gobblers, she escapes from her house and the runaway girl begins an amazing adventure in a war to save her friend and other missing children with her allied Gyptians, Witches and the strong Armored Bear Iorek Byrnison.

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