The Smurfs (TV series)

The Smurfs is an American animated television series that was produced 1981-1989 by the Hanna- Barbera Studios for NBC. The series is based on the 1958 published in the magazine Spirou original artwork The Smurfs of the Belgian cartoonist Peyo.

Content

The Smurfs live in Smurf Hausen, her hometown in " Enchanted Land". Schlumpfhausen is ruled as " Schlumpfokratie " without further state organs. Papa Smurf takes a fatherly leader perceive a kind of mayor function and stands out from the other Smurfs by his white beard and his red clothes off. Grandpa Smurf wears a long white beard and yellow clothes, the other Smurfs are beardless and, with the exception of the Smurf Toys, mostly dressed in white and wearing a Phrygian cap. The distinctive personalities, however, are determined visually on their skills. Smurfs are always male and are not born, but brought by storks. Female Smurfs Smurfette as, Omaschlumpf and Sasette can only result from a spell, applied to blue clay.

Means of transportation are storks, with those long distances can be covered. Later, especially the younger Smurfs ( " Smurf Coins" ) serves the Dog " Welpi " as a means of transportation. Most Smurfs live in hollowed-out mushrooms that are set up like houses. The Smurf language is the pidgin language of the Smurfs, which is a mixture of original elements and the respective broadcasting language. In it, the word stems of verbs, nouns and adjectives by the stem will " smurf" replaced ( in other countries in accordance with, for example, by " pitufo " or " smurf "). For humans, Smurfs are therefore difficult to understand.

The evil wizard Gargamel and his cat Azrael requires among other things a Smurf for a recipe for making gold. So he tries to catch them, to make them gold or to cook soup. Later Gargamel has an apprentice named snotty nose ( Bolvamel ). More rarely appeared nor any other person, such as the incredibly ugly witch Hogatha and her vulture Harold, on, along with a monster called Nemesis, that Grandpa Smurf prepares nightmares. It is an evil wizard who wanted the Smurfs steal her long life stone to life itself forever. Other recurring characters are Gargamel's mother and his evil godfather Balthasar, and greedy ogre loudmouth and the Sorceress Chlorhydris who wants to banish the love of the world. As friends of the Smurfs also occur on Father Time and Mother Nature, who look after the seasons in the Smurf forest.

Publication

Energy produced by Hanna- Barbera Studios series first aired on September 12, 1981 to December 2, 1989 by the NBC network in the U.S. and comprising 256 episodes. The series has been translated into over 26 languages ​​, including French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Esperanto. In May 2008, published in the United States nine DVDs with episodes of the series.

In German, the series was aired for the first time following the April 15, 1983 by ZDF. Later broadcasts followed by the ProSieben, Sat.1, Super RTL, Tele 5, ORF1, Disney Channel, Junior, Boomerang and Premiere.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released all 9 seasons in Germany in 4 batches as each Staffelbox on DVD. The seasons 1 & 2 in August 2011, the seasons 3-5 in October 2011, the seasons 6 & 7 in December 2011 and the seasons 8 & 9 in March 2012.

Synchronization

Between 1983 and 1984 were 52 episodes of the Smurf series, aired under the direction of Rudolf Krause on ZDF. After two seasons the show was canceled and taken over by Tele 5. There was a new synchronization and a new scoring the opening credits by Eberhard Cronshagen. The Tele 5 - synchronization corresponds to the present known as the old ZDF synchronization is largely forgotten. Responsible for this better-known version was the Planet Wave Studios in Hamburg, which synchronized the most ancient Tele -5- cartoons. Many well-known speaker ( Helmut Weinzierl, Andreas von der Meden, Kurt Goldstein, Gottfried Kramer, Jens Wawrczeck ) borrowed characters from the Smurfs their vote, as opposed to the original, in which more often a spokesman for different voices took over. Noteworthy are also the almost complete lack ( " smurf ", " schlumpfig ") of the Smurf language in favor of a neutral High German, and the - so that the voices are not alienated particularly marginal high Pitschen of votes - compared to the original as well as the ZDF version effect. While synchronization can be described as quite successful, the translations of the episode titles are but sometimes a bit confusing, since one has translated the title literally, but this does not always makes sense, and at least in one case is completely wrong

More films

The first film adaptation of the comic was the Belgian animated series from the life of the Smurfs (Les aventures of the Smurfs ), which expired at the end of the 60s in the German and Austrian television. A cut together from 5 episodes film came in 1965 in the Belgian cinema.

In 1976, the Belgian film production The Smurfs and The Magic Flute, which was released in theaters in Germany and Austria.

In August 2011, the 3D film The Smurfs was released in theaters in which the computer-animated Smurfs get into the real New York of the 21st century world.