Tintin et moi (2003)

Director:

Anders Østergaard

Writer:

Anders Østergaard (scenario)

Release Date:

16 January 2004 (Denmark)

Genre:

Documentary | Biography

Tagline:

Meet the man behind the masterpiece.

Plot:

A high-profiled documentary about Hergé and his major cartoon success, Tintin, based in part on previously unreleased archive tape footage. |

Plot Keywords:

Tintin | Mummy | Art | WWII | 1970s

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Numa Sadoul	...	Interviewer
Hergé	...	Himself (archive footage)
Michael Farr	...	Himself
Harry Thompson	...	Himself
Andy Warhol	...	Himself (archive footage)
Fanny Rodwell	...	Herself
Gérard Valet	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tony Beck	...	(voice)
Olivier Cuvelier	...	(voice)
Danièlle Denise	...	(voice)
Per Kapper	...	Model
Lars Kirchhoff	...	Model
Alan Louis	...	(voice)
Karin Mørch	...	Interviewer
Patrick Waleffe	...	(voice)

Also Known As:

Tintin and I (Australia) (DVD title) (UK)
Hergé: A Documentary Portrait (Denmark) (working title)
Tintin and Me (International: English title) (literal title)
Tintin et moi (France)
Tintin och jag (Sweden)
Tintin og mig (Denmark) (alternative title)

Runtime:

Denmark:75 min | Argentina:75 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)

Country:

Denmark | Belgium | France | Switzerland | Sweden

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color | Black and White

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Australia:G | Finland:S | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland

Company:

Angel Films

Trivia:

In an unusual use of special effects, Hergé's lips were re-animated to fit some of the sound clips of his voice played in the film.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#31.2)" (2004)

For Tintinophiles only

Some thirty years ago, Author Numa Sadoul published a book length interview with the Belgian comic book artist Georges Remi (better known as Herge, the creator of Tintin). This movie catches up with Sadoul today as he recalls the interview, while we listen to the cassettes (Herge died in 1983) and see some old photos and footage of the man himself. Some parts of the interview were not published in the book at the request of Herge, and we now know these dealt with his separation from his wife, after he had an affair with one of his collaborators (who years later would become his second wife). An interesting thing the movie does not address well is the shift in the Tintin books from the early rightist and imperialist books (Tintin in the Congo, Tintin in the lands of the Soviets) to fairly anti-imperialist books just a few years later (The Blue Lotus). On the whole, I come out of this movie knowing a few more things about Herge and seeing him as a bit more unlikable than when I come in to the theater.