Urmel aus dem Eis (2006)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Directors:

Reinhard Klooss
Holger Tappe

Writers:

Oliver Huzly (writer)
Reinhard Klooss (writer)
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Release Date:

3 August 2006 (Germany)

Genre:

Animation

Plot Keywords:

Computer Animation | Based On Novel

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Wigald Boning	...	Professor Habakuk Tibatong (voice)
Anke Engelke	...	Wutz (voice)
Florian Halm	...	Diener Sami (voice)
Christoph Maria Herbst	...	Doktor Zwengelmann (voice)
Kevin Iannotta	...	Tim Tintenklecks (voice)
Ulrike Johanssen	...	(voice)
Stefan Krause	...	Pinguin Ping (voice)
Zoe Martin	...	Ping
Oliver Pocher	...	Schuhschnabel Schusch (voice)
Domenic Redl	...	Urmel (voice)
Frank Schaff	...	Waran Wawa (voice)
Klaus Sonnenschein	...	König Pumponell (voice)
Bernhard Völger	...	(voice)
Wolfgang Völz	...	See-Elefant (voice)

Directed by
Reinhard Klooss
Holger Tappe

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Oliver Huzly		writer
Reinhard Klooss		writer
Max Kruse		novel
Sven Severin		writer

Produced by
Andreas Fallscheer	....	co-producer
Oliver Huzly	....	executive producer
Reinhard Klooss	....	producer
Stephan Mallmann	....	co-executive producer
Sebastian Riemen	....	executive producer: Ambient Entertainment
Holger Tappe	....	producer
Michael Waldleitner	....	line producer

Original Music by
James Dooley

Film Editing by
Fabian Mueller

Production Design by
Henning Ahlers
Jens Benecke

Production Management
Fabian Mueller	....	production manager

Art Department
Jens Benecke	....	storyboard artist
Michael Mantel	....	storyboard artist
Ulrich Zeidler	....	concept artist

Sound Department
Stefan Busch	....	sound designer
Jo Fürst	....	foley artist
Lisa Geffcken-Reinhard	....	foley editor
Michael Kranz	....	sound re-recording mixer
Nico Krebs	....	sound designer
Nils Rademacher	....	production sound designer
Benjamin Rosenkind	....	sound engineer

Special Effects by
Gildas Gerdes	....	hair supervisor
Tino Waschke	....	technical director: hair & fur

Visual Effects by
Markus Baumeister	....	digital compositor
Markus Baumeister	....	lighting artist
Michael Best	....	digital effects artist
Bernd Bohnert	....	cloth supervisor
Jan Dubberke	....	digital compositor
Christian Haas	....	visual effects artist
Jens Kafitz	....	texture & shading supervisor
Fredrik Kammer	....	lighting/rendering technical director
Alexander Nicolas Ostermann	....	character animator
Manuel Pietschmann	....	digital effects artist
Kay Poprawe	....	texturing & shading
Udo Schlörmann	....	digital compositor
Timo Schnitt	....	visual effects
Carsten Seller	....	character animator
Sheldon Stopsack	....	lighting/rendering technical director
Pedram Taghdisi	....	character animator
Nicolai Tuma	....	animation supervisor
Tilmann Vogt	....	character animator
Guillaume Wyatt	....	lighting and rendering

Animation Department
Henning Baumeister	....	character animator
Hartmut Engel	....	character animator
Mascha Jürgens	....	character animator
Oliver Kurth	....	character designer
Benedikt Niemann	....	animation supervisor

Music Department
Jeffrey Biggers	....	music scoring mixer
Tim Davies	....	conductor
Tim Davies	....	orchestrator
Peter Fuchs	....	music scoring engineer
Karin Gatzke	....	music consultant
Karin Gatzke	....	music coordinator
Todd Haberman	....	composer: additional music
Daryl B. Kell	....	music editor: scoring
Matthew Margeson	....	additional music arranger
Alan Meyerson	....	music scoring mixer
Nils Rademacher	....	temp music
Brandon Roberts	....	music preparation
Paul Talkington	....	music coordinator
Tom Trafalski	....	music editor
Greg Vines	....	score mixing assistant
Hans Zimmer	....	score producer

Other crew
Jan Fröhlich	....	digital laboratory supervisor
Pascal Karls	....	computer systems manager
Ricardo Marcelino	....	computer systems
Pierre Peters-Arnolds	....	liaison: PPA Film - Studio G (as Pierre Peters-Arnold)
Frank Schaff	....	dubbing director
Michael Welzel	....	digital laboratory supervisor

Thanks
Melanie Reynard	....	thanks

Production Companies

• Ambient Entertainment GmbH
• Bavaria Pictures
• Falcom Media

Distributors

• HanWay Films (2006) (worldwide) (all media) (sales)
• Falcom Media (2006) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Universum Film (UFA) (2006) (Germany) (DVD)
• Ascot Elite Entertainment Group (2006) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Image Entertainment
• Impuls Home Entertainment (2006) (Switzerland) (DVD)
• Paris Filmes (2009) (Brazil) (all media)
• SBP (2009) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Tiglon (2007) (Turkey) (all media)

Also Known As:

Impy's Island (USA) (festival title)

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:o.Al. | South Korea:All | USA:G | Singapore:G | Peru:PT | Mexico:AA | Argentina:Atp

Company:

Ambient Entertainment GmbH

Movie Connections:

Followed by Urmel voll in Fahrt (2008)

Wonderful adaptation of a wonderful book

No offense to anybody, but I think that it is very hard for anybody who didn’t grow up in Germany in the past forty years to appreciate the impact that this story has had on kids and adults here (Urmel is now the official mascot of Germany’s national ice-hockey team!). This is, after all, the third adaptation of the original book (not counting the 2-D cartoon series) and, I must say (being very skeptical about remakes), a very good one. It was good to see Max Kruse, the author of the book (1969), who is now 86 years old, commenting on the DVD how much he appreciated this version, and I understand why. In many aspects, it has been carefully (!) updated and adapted to current taste, but in other ways it is MORE faithful to the original book than the more famous TV puppet version from the 1960s. And the dialog is so faithful to the book that I could anticipate all the punch lines! Apart from that, I was also surprised (not having read the book or seen the older version for a while) to see how topical the theme still is. I certainly never watched it for its “message” when I was 8 years old, but it has one: It is the old theme of the conservationist (who wants just to preserve nature) vs. the scientist (who wants to analyze and dissect everything) vs. the trophy hunter (who is purely destructive for the sole purpose of achieving personal “glory”). It is in no way subtle – but it is told in a way that children understand. I can tell, because my daughter is now about the same age that I was when I saw it for the first time, and the impact hasn’t changed. And thanks to DVD, we can all watch the 1969 version alongside the new one – I think we have two wonderful version of one wonderful book. And tell your kids to read the book, too (the book is called “Urmal from the Ice Age” in English, “Plodoc” in French).