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Pippi Longstocking is an extraordinary little girl who lives alone in her house, while her father sails the seven seas. Pippi's irrepressibly fun nature makes her easy to befriend, as neighbors Tommy and Annika find, but can also earn ire, especially from social worker Mrs. Prysselius.
When marauding Romans capture - and catapult - their pal Getafix into lands unknown, the shrewd and cunning Asterix and his able sidekick Obelix spring into action! But their journey leads them to a strange and dangerous new world, where they must face a tribe of Indians, a stampeding herd of buffalo and a medicine man with designs on their magic potion!
In this Oscar-nominated short, a man seals himself off in 17th century plague-infested London to escape the danger of infection. When a little girl seeks his help, he has an opportunity.
When God distributed wiseness and foolishness through a newly created world, one of the cherubs accidentally dropped all the foolishness on a tiny village called Chelm. So everyone in the village is very dumb. Recently orphaned boy Aaron and his friendly goat Zlateh live there with Aaron's uncle Shlemiel. When an evil sorcerer and his monster attack the village, Aaron and Zlateh have to defend it themselves.
Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise to fulfill one of Rumpelstiltskin's wishes. The resulting animated films show episodes of the life of Werner, a plumber apprentice and motorbike enthusiast and his friends. They are interspersed with the live-action portions.
Three men shipwrecked on a desolate island are granted a helpful gift by a mermaid, only to misuse it entirely.
A wicked investor wants Werner's residential area razed to the ground in order to build a shopping center. However, building tycoon Günzelsen has not reckoned with Werner. Together with his master Röhrich he's planning to blow away the plumbings with a gigantic obstruction...
There are only a few days until Easter. The Easter Bunnies are very busy. But things don't turn how the way they should, the most beautiful and colorful Easter eggs have disappeared. Harry, the Easter Bunny detective, faces a difficult task. And there's Nikki, the Easter bunny girl, who suddenly starts to feel weird at the Easter Egg hiding place. No wonder, because she is immediately pulled out of the cylinder of a magician who is just giving a children's performance. And because even Easter Bunny children like to tell stories, they imagine what would happen if the Easter Bunny was not an Easter Bunny but an Easter Elephant or an Easter Giraffe. You're bound to think of even more.
Christopher Columbus decides to go on a journey to prove that the Earth is not flat. His companion is a smart wood worm who's on a quest of his own: to save a beautiful fairy princess from the evil lord Swarm and his insect army.
A domestic house cat named Francis investigates the grisly feline murders taking place in his new neighborhood.
Four aging animals, a dog, a cat, a donkey and a rooster escape from their former homes because they weren't as productive and useful for their owners as they used to be. To avoid death, they all move out on a musical journey to Bremen to find a better life.
Because of a bet, Werner and his friend have to construct the fastest vehicle to win a race, because life depends on it.
After Sumsemann the beetle loses one of his arms to a troll, he invites brother and sister Peterchen and Annaliese to join him on a journey to the moon in a quest to retrieve his lost arm.
The film starts off with a woman and a baby on a plane. The plane, for no apparent reason, fails and crashes into a jungle. The baby survives and is adopted and brought home by a gorilla named Shina. She brings him to her troop, where he is ridiculed for being different from the rest of them. The yet to be named baby is allowed to stay on the condition that he is to go if he causes any trouble. Shina names him Lord and he quickly adjusts to life as a gorilla.
A stop-motion animation short film.
A man with a lampshade for a head turns his imagination on and off with each tug of the pull-cord.
A pilot crashes his plane in the desert, in the middle of the night. There is no one in the vast distance. Suddenly, a miraculous figure of a child emerges from the darkness - "The Little Prince". He asks the pilot to draw him a sheep. Now there are two of them in a vast desert with only one water source. They get closer and bond with each other.
After his owners abandon him in the woods, a puppy befriends a family of rabbits.
In the depths of a dense winter forest, an old little witch lives. The animals in the forest like her, because she has never caused anyone suffering. But she has a small mistake: sometimes greed overcomes her - so also on a Christmas evening. She wants more gifts than she deserves, so Santa decides not to give her a gift at all this year. The witch chases after Santa's balloon to tear him a gift. But she does not succeed, instead her witch broom breaks during the wild hunt. Sadly, the witch sneaks home. Unhappy and lonely, she sits in her gloomy witch apartment and is ashamed of her greedy behavior. Suddenly Santa is standing in front of her. He is not evil, but gives her a new witch broom and a red witch cat. So it happens that Hex' and Santa celebrate Christmas together and make music deep into the night.
A disturbingly organic-looking figure speaks to us of life, politics and death as the symbol of the common man toils away. Written and narrated by William S. Burroughs.
An experimental animation short film.
The order comes in the summer of 1941 from propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best animators are summoned to Berlin. Their task: Producing feature-length cartoons in ‘Disney-Quality’ with the newly founded ‘Deutsche Zeichenfilm GmbH’. To get trained, the Disney movie “Snow White” is re-traced frame by frame. After the final victory, one new feature-length production of quality shall be released every year from 1947 onwards. – that is the plan. Only in 1943, the first production is completed: “Armer Hansi” a 17-minute-long colour movie, realized with the effortful Multiplane-technology. The second film by the ‘Deutsche Zeichenfilm’ is only completed in 1946 – by DEFA. In the territories occupied by Germany, cartoons are produced as well, sometimes harmless ones, sometimes propagandistic ones. With excerpts from animated movies, life-action film documents, and witness reports by contemporaries, this documentary draws a picture of the cartoon production in the third Reich.
Mom Doe gives birth to a fawn named Goldie and all the creatures of the forest want to visit him. Wuschel, the squirrel, soon became his best friend. Every animal and plant in the forest knows man is a great danger. So, when Wuschel and Goldie meet the creepy trees, they advise them to stay away from men and their technology. The little fawn doesn't believe these stories and he decided to play with giant bees.
The story of Aladin is one of the most beautiful and well known fairy tales from "the Arabian nights". Aladin is the son of a poor tailor. But with the help of Dschinni, a friendly ghost, he achieves luck and wealth. And since this is a fairy tale, he marries the sultan’s beautiful daughter in the end.
While trying to comfort people in need, a young man causes quite a bit of trouble for a farming family...
Through redubbed footage of The Coyote's Lament, the coyote's relationship with man and dog is shown from the coyote's point of view, as seen in various Disney cartoons.
Philipp and Anna, the two Easter bunny children, are visiting their aunt Gertrud to learn how to paint eggs. However, you have nothing but pranks on your head and throw your poor aunt from one excitement to the next. Soon she will run out of nerves and drop every second egg. If it weren't for Alfred, the funny Easter bunny grandpa, who always brings Anna and Philipp to their senses. But then something really terrible happens - Philipp has disappeared. This time it's not a prank and Anna is scared because there was this mysterious stranger whom the children saw on their forays. Has it anything to do with the sudden disappearance? When Anna doesn't know what to do next, she asks Grandpa Alfred for help. And he has an idea ...
The "Wild Dogs" assumed the challenge of the "Jungle Kings." The coach of the "Wild Dogs " spends sleepless nights. Will Bulli, his left defender, ever learn not to beat up his opponent, or Butcher, the keeper, ever loose his fear of a penalty kick? Also in the opposing team there are problems. The best forward of the "Jungle Kings", a small lion, never wants to pass the ball. To make things even worse, a swarm of Hooligeese is reported to be on the way.... Finally the time has come. The match is about to begin.
For many years, the little ghost has lived at Eulenstein Castle, playing pranks on the residents. Night after night, he tells his friend, the eagle owl, exciting stories from his long life - a life that is suddenly turned upside down when the little ghost wakes up too early one day and experiences the world in daylight for the first time.
"Is this all there is to life?" thought the donkey, who was working as a tourist attraction for in the "Animal-Adventure-Park ", after his boss kicked him out. And because people again and again told him that his voice sounded lovely, he decided to make a career as a musician and go to Bremen. On his way, he met a dog, whose fate was to spend the rest of his life in the animal asylum, because his old master had died. The dog was a great drummer, so the donkey asked him to come along with him. On their way they met a cock and a cat, who were also living in a desperate situation. Since they too were good musicians, it was only logical that they completed the band. And what nobody ever believed came true. After many adventures, they were finally on stage. Where? Of course in Bremen.
Want to know what a successful day in the life of the little asshole looks like? Yes? Well, after you have successfully disturbed your parents' lovemaking, you concentrate on your own libido. This, slightly disturbed, forces you to strain the weak heart of pensioner Mrs. Koschmidder with unambiguous offers.
Winter 1925 in Alaska. Nome, a small place situated almost at the north pole, is cut off from the external world. But the children and their friends, the clumsy polar bear, the clever seal and of course the huskies keep on playing anyhow. But then one child after another gets sick. "Diphtheria ", says the doctor, " we don't have enough medicine." There is only one chance to save the children. Balto and Kemo, the two fastest sled dogs of the village are chosen to get the medicine from the city. But this City is more than 400 miles away from Nome.
Prince Tamino and his companions are chasing a magnificent boar. Caught up in the excitement of the hunt, Prince Tamino ignores all warnings and fails to notice that he is approaching the end of the world.
The vacation period has started. Everyone tries to get out of the stuffy city, including Mrs. McDonald and her three cats: mother Lauren and the kittens Lucy and Lionel. Mrs. McDonald is very proud of her cats because she considers them very well cared for and highly educated. Lauren however knows better. She has a lot of trouble especially with Lucy who is a real wild one. And indeed, as Mrs. McDonald and her cats arrive at the resort, the problems start. Instead of behaving like a well-bred cat and laying in the sun all day, Lucy begins to explore the surrounding immediately. First Lauren is furious. But as it’s getting later and darker and Lucy does not show up, the fear arises, that something really bad could have happened to her.
An animated short directed by Benjamin Quabeck.
Amadeus is a small Punker living in a trash can. One day he has got the idea to participate in a punk concert in front of the Brandenburger Tor and convinces his friends to found a band. But still they have no instruments and thus have to gain some money. Meanwhile the eager police officer Herr Schulze is out to chase punks in Berlin and is about to interfere with Amadeus' plans...
Harold Mortimer is the last of his clan. The old dilapidated castle is all he has left and he urgently needs money for renovation. Until now, he earned his living from tourists. But the ghosts, once helpful in scaring the numerous clientele, are staying away, because the whisky cellar is empty. Without ghosts, there are no tourists, no money, no renovation, no whishy, no ghosts.... a vicious circle. Enraged, he decides to get rid of the ghosts once and for all and chases them back to the graveyard where they once came from. There he meets the cemetery gardener Paolo. The two quickly become friends and decide to go to Spain together. Paaolo even owns a boat... But how will he make it to the sea? Can the enchanted fairy help them?
A tale of vegetarian vampires on this second direct to video release.
Ascha, a little girl, is standing confused in front of the destroyed czar palace in Russia. None the Czar-Family seems to have survived. An old man has compassion on the little girl, who can remember nothing, not even her name. He decides to take Ascha with him to his home.
Short animated film about a neonazi and the changes he goes through after an operation.
Roaming around with her best friend Wabuu, the curious and cheeky raccoon, Pocahontas, the beautiful chieftain daughter discovers a ship with a lot of strangers on the shore. "These White people will bring much woe to our people" predicts the chieftain. And actually, the gold-greedy captain of the ship starts a war on the Indians. Will Pocahontas succeed in preventing the inevitable fight and to save their people?
Tobias Totz is a very special zookeeper. He has a lot of understanding for his animals and everyone loves him, and he has grown very fond of the lion.
"Perseus won't bring you luck, Acrisius", oracles the seer Talos at the birth of Perseus, the son of the father of the god Zeus. And that doesn't happen. Acrisius sends his grandson out to sea. But Zeus protects his son and Perseus is saved. Will Zeus help him too? Can Perseus make his way to Medusa with the dreadful snake head? Or will Andromeda be freed from the shark? And what does the oracle say? All of this and more you'll find out in the exciting and entertaining cartoon from the world of Greek tales.
The animated picture story tells the fate of a fart that escapes a prison warden as he falls into the underworld of the sewer system. While the warden sinks deeper and deeper, the fart has bitter experiences in the upper world. Only when he saves a pair of lovers from a robber and unites with his terrifying fart to form a cloud does he find happiness.
A long time ago, when monsters and ogres lived around the world, Zeus decided to make his son Hercules immortal so he could rule over Greece. But Hera, Zeus' wife, doesn't like the idea. Now, Hercules must prove he's worthy of being called a hero.
Based on the classical novel "Treasure of Silver Lake" by Karl May. Cowboys Hobble Frank and Tante Droll are instructed to deliver the legacy of chief Weiser Bär, a map to the legendary Treasure of the Silver Lake, to his hiers Großer Bär and Kleiner Bär. But the bandit Cornel Brinkley and his buddies manage to steal the map and so Frank and Droll call up Old Shatterhand and Winnetou, to help them in their quest to recapture the map and save the treasure.
Quasimodo grew up under the protection of the Abbott of Notre Dame. He never left the church, because people did not like him and he did not like people, until he saw the pretty gypsy Esmeralda dancing one day. Quasimodo decided to be there for her always.
A colony of cockroaches feasts on the food in an old refrigerator, while a lone roach stands guard outside. When a man discovers the infestation and tries to destroy them all, the brave little roach defends himself and his fellows.
The little people emerging from the optical film projector activated by a fly accompany the audience through key milestones in a century of film history. Which classic films can you recognize in the film?
The Austrian artist Maria Lassnig tells us the story of her life in 14 verses, beginning with her birth and ending with her life as it is today. Simultaneusly - in the background - we see the story as animated drawings, full of irony, humor and wisdom.
The youngest of the miller's three sons sits sadly in front of his cabin while his brothers inherit their father's mill and donkey, and all he'd gotten was an old tomcat. But what he did not know: it was a quite gifted tomcat. A tomcat that can speak and walk like a human on two legs!
Kafka watches a waitress nibbling from a little pot that she has to serve to somebody. Kafka is outraged and complains about it. The girl gets sentenced to stoning and he complains again and regrets what he has done befoe. When he is not able to stop people throwing stones at her, he committs suicide. However, people help the girl to get up and she continues her usual work.
A small man sits on a station bench. A chunky, initially polite guy joins him, uses his newspaper, eats his travel provisions on the train, follows him and harasses him on the bus, in the cab, in his house, makes himself at home. When the harassed man calls the police, the patrol arrests him and the ruffian triumphs. The little boy is released. Now he is helplessly at the mercy of the intruder's harassment and is thrown out the door by him.
The hero of the animated film is Pepolino, a singer who becomes a sailor to search for his lost grandfather and his immeasurably valuable treasure. During the adventurous voyage across the seven seas, his greatest enemy is the witch Hildegard, who sets the pirate trio Red Beard, Peg Leg and Glass Eye on him. The money-hungry Captain Babaluk also gives him a hard time. But he finds loyal and brave friends in Jakob the dog, Poch the parrot, Emil the ship's rat and Babette the cat. And when he meets the mermaid Mora, he also finds true love.
Animation feature ostensibly about the adventures and romance of two Interpol agents, called upon to investigate a sensational art theft. At the same time, the film pokes fun at the contemporary art world - in particular Joseph Beuys's statement that 'everybody is an artist'.