The Magic Flute (2006 film) The Magic Flute (2006 film) The Magic Flute is Kenneth Branagh's English-language film version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's singspiel "Die Zauberflöte". The film is a co-production between France & the UK, produced by Idéale Audience and in association with UK's Peter Moores Foundation. In November 2005, it was announced that, as part of the 250th anniversary celebration of Mozart's birthday, a new film version of "The Magic Flute", set during World War I, was to be made, directed by Kenneth Branagh, with a translation by Stephen Fry. The film was presented at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute and Peewit give the flutes back to the Smurfs, and after they leave, Peewit starts playing the flute, only to realize (to his horror) that it has no effect on the townsfolk; it is the fake flute he had made! The film is based on "La Flûte à six trous" ("The Flute with Six Holes"), which appeared in the Belgian weekly comic "Spirou" magazine in 1958/59. Subsequent book publications renamed it as "La Flûte à six Schtroumpfs" ("The Flute with Six Smurfs"), which was also the French title of the film. In 2008, a prequel "Les Schtroumpfeurs de flûte" ("The