Tami Stronach, the iconic Childlike Empress in The NeverEnding Story (celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year), makes her long-awaited return to the big screen in the new fantasy film “Man And Witch: The Dance Of A Thousand Steps, which is in theaters this July.

When a lonely goatherd discovers that he has been cursed at birth to never take a wife, he makes a bargain with a reclusive witch to reverse the spell, only to find that if he can’t complete her three impossible tasks, he will never find true love.

Directed by Michael Hines, the film stars Tami Stronach, Greg Steinbruner, Daniel Portman; with Michael Emerson, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Christopher Lloyd; the voices of Sean Astin, Bill Bailey, Eddie Izzard and Jennifer Saunders

Tami Stronach, Executive Producer and star of Man and Witch, began her acting career as The Childlike Empress in Wolfgang Petersen’s 1984 cult-classic The NeverEndingStory. In 2015, she co-founded the award-winning entertainment studio Paper Canoe Company with husband and Man and Witch co-star Greg Steinbruner to create family-oriented content for the stage and screen.