Jannik Hastrup

Jannik Hastrup (born 4 May 1941 in Næstved, Denmark) is a Danish writer, director, producer, illustrator and animator. He is considered "Denmark's grand master of animation", as he is particularly well known for directing, animating and writing several animated films, occasionally with Flemming Quist Møller, including Benny's Bathtub, Dreaming of Paradise, Samson & Sally, War of the Birds, The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear and A Tale of Two Mozzies. He also directed, wrote and animated a number of shorts following Cirkeline the elf.

Politics

Jannik Hastrup was a socialist, which did influence some of his works.[1] Aside from political films throughout the 1970s decade, the 1971 Cirkeline film Flugten fra Amerika (Escape in America) depicts the titular character and two mice friends going to a monochrome and unclean New York City, but are attacked by police (actually toy soldiers) after knocking down Mickey Mouse. After Cirkeline and one mouse Frederik hide under trash bins, they found out the other mouse Sofus was captured by the police. An unseen mouse belonging to the Black Panther Party greets them and explains the extreme racial inequality situation in the United States (with pictures of BPP clashes in his narration). Cirkeline and Frederik leaves the trash bins while the police kill the BPP mouse, following by an anti-Richard Nixon image set on the Statue of Liberty. Cirkeline and Frederik goes to a Native American village (the chief being another mouse friend, Ingolf) to get assistance on the conflict and they defeat the police and rescued Sofus before leaving New York. The film was political enough that the Danish Broadcasting Corporation refused to air it, and no more Cirkeline films were produced until 1998.[2][3]

Feature films

Short films

References

  1. ↑ http://www.plaschke.dk/tegnefilm/jannikh.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.plaschke.dk/tegnefilm/cirkeline_forhist.htm
  3. ↑ Tholl, Sofie (16 September 2010). "Det er væbnet revolution - og det' for børn". Dagbladet Information (in Danish) (A/S Information). Retrieved 21 February 2015.

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