
Theatre· Esslingen am Neckar
Mononoke
**Princess Mononoke** is a 1997 Studio Ghibli animated film by Hayao Miyazaki about a young warrior, Ashitaka, who becomes caught in a violent conflict between the forest gods and animal spirits—led by the fierce San, a human raised by wolves—and the humans of Iron Town, who are destroying the wilderness to fuel industrial progress. The film explores themes of nature versus civilization, vengeance