The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997
⏱️ 93 min
📅 Released
🌐 EN
FamilyFantasyAdventure
Four Edwardian children find a strange egg in their newly-arrived Persian carpet. It hatches into a Phoenix bird that grants wishes and also transforms the rug into a magic carpet, which takes them on a series of adventures all over the world and at home. A truncated edit of the three-hour miniseries for the home video market.
Crew
Director
Michael Kerrigan
Writer
Edith Nesbit, Helen Cresswell
Producer
Giles Ridge, Anna Home
Production
BBC Worldwide, Miramax
Keywords
literary adaptationfantasybbc