Les Maîtres du temps

German dubbing

• Timmo Niesner ( Piel )
• Manfred Lehmann ( Claude )
• Frank Glaubrecht ( Jaffar )
• Lothar Blum Hagen ( Matton )
• Ursula Heyer ( Belle)
• Frederick W. Bauschulte ( Silbad )
• Jürgen Thormann ( Yula )
• Renate Danz ( Jad )
• Arnold Marquis ( Igor )

Time Masters (1982 ) is a French science fiction animated film by René Laloux (director) after the novel L' Orphelin de Perdide ( The orphan boy from Perdida ) by Stefan Wul.

Action

The orphan boy Piel is set on the planet Perdida on his own after his parents came from an attack by hornets called giant insects killed. From his father he received shortly before his death in a microphone, with which he can keep in touch with fellow crew of a distant space ship on which a similar microphone is located. The ship now embarks on the road to Perdida to save the boy, and his crew lived through it a series of adventures.

During a stopover on the planet Devil 's Ball one takes not only the old spaceman Silbad along for the ride. There sneak the two enabled for telepathy natured Gnome Jad and Yula with on the ship, who due to ' evil ' thoughts of some actors to suffer from this. Likewise, a landing on the planet Gamma 10 takes place on the faceless winged creatures turn out to be unified, manipulated individuals and be freed from the occupation.

Finally, the vessel actually approaches Perdida, but havariert before it can reach him. The crew members can be found on a huge space station again. As it turns out, the spaceman Silbad and the orphan boy Piel are one and the same person. The rulers of the time had Perdida set back by 60 years in the past in order to settle it better.

Criticism

"This serves as the point of the story time puzzles will be difficult for smaller children to solve. Otherwise, a lively, superbly drawn animated film with humor and ingenuity, full of bizarre adventures and scenes without superficial violence, which brings the art of drawing the comic artist Moebius good effect. "

Publications

The film was shown repeatedly on German public television. On March 28, 1983, Southwest 3 (today SWR ) and New Year's Eve 1984 and 1990 in the ARD (now First ).

The film has since November 6, 2008 available as German DVD.

Awards

• " Best Children's Film " at the Fanta Festival 1982.
• 1983 nominated as "Best animated film" when Saturn Award.