''Laura's Star'' () is a 2004 German animated feature film produced and directed by . It is based on the children's book ''

Lauras Stern ''Lauras Stern'' (''Laura's Star'') is a German children's book series by Klaus Baumgart. It was first published in October 1996. The story is about the five year old Laura who finds an injured star. After patching it up, they go on several adve ...

'' by Klaus Baumgart. It was released by the German distribution unit of

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under their Family Entertainment label.

Synopsis

Laura is a seven-year-old country girl who just moved with her family to a big city. On her first night in her new neighborhood, she sees a

shooting star A meteor, known colloquially as a shooting star, is a glowing streak of a small body (usually meteoroid) going through Earth's atmosphere, after being heated to incandescence by collisions with air molecules in the upper atmosphere, creating a ...

falling to Earth. Laura finds the star in a park and discovers that it is a living being. The star has severed one of its points during its crash landing. Laura takes the star back home in order to reattach its point with a Band-Aid. Laura and her younger brother Tommy discover the little star has superpowers and can do amazing things, such as making people fly and bringing inanimate objects to life. However, over time, both notice that the longer the star stays on Earth, the weaker it becomes; its color gradually fades and its powers fail. The siblings and their next-door neighbor Max eventually find a way to send the little star back into outer space.

Voice cast

Music

The film features the songs "Stay" and "Touch the Sky" by the German band Wonderwall and a film score by

Hans Zimmer Hans Florian Zimmer (; born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer. He has won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, five Grammy Awards, and has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmy Awards and a Tony ...

Nick Glennie-Smith Nickolas Glennie-Smith is an English film score composer, Conducting, conductor, and musician who is a frequent collaborator with Hans Zimmer, contributing to scores including ''The Rock (film), The Rock'' (nominated for the Academy Awards, Acad ...

, and

Henning Lohner Henning Lohner (born 17 July 1961) is a German-American composer and filmmaker. He is best known for his film scores written as a long-standing member of Hans Zimmer’s music cooperative Remote Control Productions. Lohner has written scores t ...

Accolades

* Outstanding Children or Youth Film,

German Film Awards The German Film Award (), also known as Lola after its prize statuette, is the national film award of Germany. It is presented at an annual ceremony honouring cinematic achievements in the German film industry. Besides being the most important ...

, 2005 * Adult Jury Prize – Animated Feature Film or Video, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, 2005

Sequels and remake

In September 2009, Warner Bros. released a sequel, '' Laura's Star and the Mysterious Dragon Nian'', and in October 2011, another one, titled '' Laura's Star and the Dream Monsters''. A live-action

remake A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium—e.g., a "new version of an existing film". A remake tells the same s ...

of the film was released in 2021.

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