Tintin and the Lake of Sharks
Tim and Haifischsee ( Alternative title: Tintin and the Haifischsee, original title: Tintin et le lac aux requins ) is a Belgian- French animated film from 1972, to which a year later, the associated eponymous comic album of the Tintin series appeared.
Action
Tintin, Snowy and Captain Haddock have traveled with a transport plane to Klow in Syldavien to a flight taxi to Flechizaff Lake, the Haifischsee to travel from there, where Professor Calculus lives straight. There they want to spend their holidays. Even at the airport, they meet Thomson and Thompson, who are on a secret mission. With the Schultze together who have joined them, they climb, the only passengers, their air taxi. But shortly before the arrival of a fall from the engines of the aircraft and the pilot to take a parachute. Tim manages with difficulty the airplane emergency landing on a mountainside. With the help of randomly located in the area Niko, his sister Nuschka and strong dog of the two children manage the emergency landing from the burning machine that is about to plunge into a ravine. With the small horse-drawn cart of the two siblings they continue their journey to the villa, in the Calculus temporarily by invitation lives, continues. In the villa, which is on the lake, which, as was mentioned Niko, cursed, they meet Calculus of as expected. At a dinner turns out that the Schultze have come to protect the professor. He is working on a 3D copy machine with which every one object is replicable. Art forger it could have targeted his invention. The In Reisten then refer their room and lie down to rest. The next day, the professor presented the captain of his not yet fully developed invention and Tim discovered around a cave with numerous stolen art treasures. In the absence of Tim Niko and his sister Nuschka are kidnapped by divers. Through a tape message Tim receives a message from the kidnappers. In two days he should wait at a described location on the lake with the invention of the professor. In the meantime, Tim disappears secretly by night from the villa, called the police and leaves the pocket-sized submarine in the shape of a shark, the Calculus was designed to recover the treasure of the Red Rackham, bring along. Tim suspects that the criminals will pick him up by a U - boat. The captain should follow him with Tintin together in mini - submarine. As Tim has guessed the criminals pick it up with a U- boat and take him to the criminal base that is built in a sunken city. Tim is brought to the head of the organization, the Great Shark is called, but no one other than Rastapopoulos is a criminal, which Tim is already encountered frequently. Tim passes the device with which you can copy objects plastically. With the help of the device wants to duplicate the stolen art treasures to make even more money than before. But Rastapopoulos must determine that the device is not working properly. He throws Tim with siblings in a dungeon. Rastapopoulos now learns that the police is coming and the river scans with a patrol boat. In revenge Rastapopoulos opens the floodgates, so an hour of base will be flooded. Tim and the siblings do it, however, to break free, and without prejudice to reach the water surface. They are picked up by the police patrol boat, which also hosts the master, Schultze and the professor are. The police arrest the criminals. Only the Rastapopoulos the police will not get hold of, as it is now on the foreign side of the lake the Bordurischen coast. Tim ineptly with Captain Haddock a speedboat, following the submarine and lucky. Rastapopoulos is stranded with his submarine. Tim and the captain manage to arrest him and bring him back to the syldavische side of the lake, where they hand him over to the waiting police. The residents of the lake have meanwhile heard of the news and judge in honor of Tim and his friends a feast from.
Background
The Belvision Studios produced the movie in collaboration with Dargaud Films and Raymond Leblanc.
The story was not written by Tintin creator Hergé, but by his friend Greg ( Michel Regnier ). However, Hergé oversaw the project.
The premiere of the film took place in France on 13 December 1972. This was followed by the premieres in Sweden (11 August 1973), in the Federal Republic of Germany (2 December 1973), Finland (14 December 1973), in Turkey ( April 1974), in Spain (1 April 1974) in Portugal (18 December 1980) and in Hungary (9 February 1984). The English version was published under the title Tintin and the Lake of Sharks. The German theatrical took over United Artists.
1973 appeared the associated comic album from the Tintin series, in which images from the film accompanied by speech bubbles, were but partly also redrawn. The said tape is holding up rather strictly to the film plot and shows only minor differences. Therefore, it can be seen on the cover of the album a great film strips. The style of the drawings, particularly the coloring and the background, but is significantly different from the style of the rest of Tim's adventures.
The UFA - ATB published in the 1970s, a shorter version as a three-piece suit for the Super 8 - home theater market. A full version led the ATLAS FILM Duisburg in 16mm - format for cinema club rental. On German television, the film was probably first seen in 1984 in the ARD. Since 2006, the film is available on DVD.
Criticism
The lexicon of the International film ruled: "A limited child-friendly animated film by the popular comic book series, which offers exciting entertainment with likeable characters. "