The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (anime)
Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson with the wild geese (Japaneseニルスのふしぎな旅, no fushigi na tabi Nirusu, " Nils ' miraculous journey " ), known as Nils Holgersson, is an anime series in 1980 that the on novel The wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson is based with the wild geese of the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf.
Action
The boy's family Nils Holgersson (ニルス, Nirusu ) lives on a farm with lots of animals in Western Vemmenhög. But Nils makes a joke of it, the animals, whether chickens, geese and cows to tease out of boredom or anger. Even at his hamster crumbs, which he has been given, he does not care. As Nils does not want to church one Sunday, once again, he has to stay at home and read a sermon. There he meets soon to a small brownie and blackmailed this to conjure the sermon in his head. But the goblin does not want to engage in such a trade and shrinks Nils and crumbs punishment for all his crimes on Däumlingsgröße.
While Nils is annoyed by the animals of the family as he has himself also annoyed constantly, suddenly a flock of wild geese flying across the yard. The gander Martin wants to fly with them on the long journey to Lapland and starts trying to climb into the air - but with unwanted baggage: Tom Thumb Nils and his little hamster crumbs flying out of fear of the animals on the back with Martins. This is the beginning of a great friendship and a long journey on the backs of wild geese. The wild geese flock, landed at Martin, Nils and crumb, just the prestigious group of Akka of Kebnekaise. These cherishes dislikes people and tame geese, but quickly finds pleasure in the three newcomers, as they are very brave and protect the flock from predators often as sneaky fox Smirre.
And as days go by, weeks and months spent by Nils far away from his home and his parents. Through the journey he is improving and sees animals not only as objects that can be resent.
Formation and broadcasts
Narumitsu Tagushi wrote the script for the series and it made some changes to the original plot of the novel. For example, he added a new characters like the hamster crumbs or in the original Carrot (キャロット, Kyarotto ).
The animation studio Studio Pierrot animated, which consists of 52 episodes series. The Austrian film production studio Apollo and the Japanese Studio Gakken produced with the anime. Directed by Hisayuki Toriumi, several episodes Mamoru Oshii also served as a director. Oshii was later made famous by movies like Ghost in the Shell. The figures designed Toshiyasu Okada, who held the position in, inter alia, in the anime series Dallos (1983) and Area 88 (1985). Mami Koyama said the role of the Nile in the original Japanese version. The music composed by Karel Svoboda of the German version.
From January 1980 to March 1981, the series was erstausgestrahlt on the Japanese television station NHK. In the following years she also ran in Germany, Austria, Poland, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, France, Sweden and Hungary. In Germany it was first shown in the regional programs of Bavaria, Hesse and southwest of the ARD from 29 August 1981 to 2 October 1982. From June 2003 to April 2004 was released the complete series in Germany on twelve DVDs. In the German version Philipp Brammer Nile and Helga Anders spoke crumbs. The wild goose Akka was spoken by the UFA actress Mady Rahl.
Order of the episodes
Compared to the Japanese production order, the order of the episodes in the German settlement was partly changed significantly. In particular, in the episodes Bataki in the trap and the blacksmith of Dalarna falls to the changed order when the young goose to fly who are born until later in the summer. The table compares the original order with the famous German series order:
Episodes
Role and voice actor
The German synchronous processing was under the overall direction of Andrea Wagner. For transcripts and processing Ingeborg Grunewald was responsible.