Laura's Star (2004) Lauras Stern (original title)

Directors:

Piet De Rycker
Thilo Rothkirch

Writers:

Rolf Giesen
Thilo Rothkirch
(more)

Release Date:

19 September 2004 (Germany)

Genre:

Animation | Family

Plot:

An adolescent girl and her toddler brother, find a star that has actually fallen to earth, that turns out to be living being...complete with cosmic powers

Plot Keywords:

Star | Character Name In Title

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Céline Vogt	...	Laura (voice) (as Celine Vogt)
Sandro Iannotta	...	Tommy (voice)
Maximilian Artajo	...	Max (voice)
Brit Gülland	...	Mama (voice) (as Britt Güland)
Heinrich Schafmeister	...	Papa (voice)
Mirco Nontschew	...	Mechanische Katze / Bär (voice)
Martin Reinl	...	Mini Hase (voice)
Eva Mattes	...	Sonne (voice)
Peter Fitz	...	Mond (voice)
Mogens von Gadow	...	Hausmeister (voice)
Hildegard Krekel	...	Putzfrau (voice)
Adrian Wilms	...	Harry (voice)
Carolin von der Groeben	...	Harrys Bande (voice)
Adrian Killian	...	Harrys Bande (voice)
Tobias Klausmann	...	Harrys Bande (voice)
Clemmie Hooton	...	Laura (voice: English version)
Anthony Da Silva	...	Tommy (voice: English version)
Matthew Thomas Davies	...	Max (voice: English version)
Rebecca Vere	...	Mother (voice: English version)
Nick Saich	...	Father (voice: English version)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rosa Alessi	...	Cleaning lady (voice: English version)
Charlie Brown	...	Harry (voice: English version)
Joshua Capstick	...	Harry's gang (voice: English version)
Beth McCord	...	Harry's gang (voice: English version)
David Perkins	...	Harry's gang (voice: English version)

Directed by
Piet De Rycker
Thilo Rothkirch

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Klaus Baumgart
Piet De Rycker		story
Rolf Giesen
Alexander Lindner		story
Michael Mädel		story
Thilo Rothkirch

Produced by
Maya Gräfin Rothkirch	....	producer
Thilo Rothkirch	....	producer

Original Music by
Nick Glennie-Smith
Henning Lohner
Hans Zimmer

Production Design by
Manuel Arenas		(as Man Arenas)

Art Direction by
Alexander Lindner

Production Management
Beate Andorff	....	production supervisor
Lorenza Lazzarini	....	production supervisor
Christiane Wegner	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Alexander Lindner	....	assistant director

Art Department
Manuel Arenas	....	designer (as Man Arenas)
Klaus Baumgart	....	designer
Alberto Campos	....	storyboard artist
Piet De Rycker	....	storyboard artist
Piet De Rycker	....	storyboard director
Antje Hagemann	....	designer
Ingo Hans	....	designer
Anette Hoffmann	....	designer
Marcus Hoogveld	....	storyboard artist (as Marcus Hoogveldt)
Heiko Krischker	....	designer
Matthias Lechner	....	designer
Matthias Lechner	....	storyboard artist
Alexander Lindner	....	designer
Alexander Lindner	....	storyboard artist
Eike Marcus	....	designer
Valerio Nervi	....	designer
Bri Newesely	....	designer
Ralph Niemeyer	....	designer
Ralph Niemeyer	....	storyboard artist
Frank Pimenta	....	designer (as Franck Pimenta)
Christian Puille	....	storyboard artist
Robert Somerville	....	designer (as Robert Sommerville)
Gyula Szabó	....	storyboard artist
Péter Tenkei	....	storyboard artist
Jens Tümmel	....	designer
Ute von Münchow-Pohl	....	designer
Ute von Münchow-Pohl	....	storyboard artist
Jan Vorpahl	....	designer

Sound Department
Niv Adiri	....	dialogue editor (UK release)
Stefan Colli	....	sound (as Stephan Colli)
Andy Hagon	....	adr mixer: UK release
Peter Klinkenberg	....	foley artist
Matthias Lempert	....	sound re-recording mixer
Jamie Luker	....	sound recording engineer
Fridolin Menzel	....	foley editor
Morten Folmer Nielsen	....	adr editor
Morten Folmer Nielsen	....	adr recordist
Jan Petzold	....	sound designer
Mirko Reinhard	....	sound editor
Patrick Storck	....	sound editor
Richard Straker	....	dubbing mixer: UK release
Thomas Supke	....	sound designer
Markus Wimmer	....	foley recording engineer
André Zimmerman	....	sound effects editor

Visual Effects by
Eva Behse	....	shadow effects
Thomas Diesselhorst	....	titles
Dirk Frischmuth	....	digital artist
Kay Gotthilf	....	visual effects producer
Frank Hellmann	....	DI supervisor
Julian Hermannsen	....	digital compositor
Sebastian Hofmann	....	3D supervisor
Noel P. Kiernan	....	2D special effects (as Noel Kiernan)
Marc H. Langbein	....	digital compositor
Mariola Mann	....	shadow effects
Jörn Radel	....	digital artist
Andrea Reisinger	....	shadow effects
Jens Schwarz	....	3D animator
Kathrin Schwertner	....	shadow effects supervisor
Markus 'Maggi' Selchow	....	compositor
Andreas Teichert	....	digital colorist

Animation Department
Sara Albrecht	....	digital background touch-up
Christine Anders	....	clean-up artist
Benni Andreasen	....	animator
Gabriella Andrássy	....	inbetween artist
Radoslav Bakalov	....	animation assistant
Krisztina Bakos	....	inbetween artist
Magda Bakos	....	animator (as Magdi Bakos)
László Balajthy	....	animator
László Balajthy	....	layout artist
Christian Bartz	....	layout checker
Zsolt Baumgartner	....	animator
Tibor Beck	....	inbetween artist
Darko Belevski	....	animation supervisor
Darko Belevski	....	animator
Rita Bende	....	animator
Nancy Bens	....	animator
Antje Berghäuser	....	digital background touch-up
Béla Berényi	....	inbetween artist
Andreas Besser	....	clean-up artist
Andreas Besser	....	inbetween artist
Andrea Bonczföldi	....	clean-up artist
Andrea Bonczföldi	....	inbetween artist
Anders Breum	....	animator
Sylvia Burghold	....	clean-up artist
Péter Bíró	....	clean-up artist
Alberto Campos	....	animation director
Fabrizio Carosio	....	animator
Michael Carroll	....	clean-up artist
Teresa Casanueva	....	background painter
Jose Antonio Cerro	....	animator
Yves Chrzanowski	....	background painter
Carlos Coronel	....	animator
Maurice Croissier	....	animator
Irma Csapó	....	clean-up artist
Szilvia Cseh	....	clean-up artist
Szilvia Cseh	....	inbetween artist
Rosangela de Araujo	....	clean-up artist
Paul De Blieck	....	animator
Mónika Demeter	....	clean-up artist (as Móni Demeter)
Mónika Demeter	....	inbetween artist (as Móni Demeter)
Jahangir Dermani	....	clean-up artist
Duna Dietzsche	....	background painter
Duna Dietzsche	....	background supervisor
Carsten Domnauer	....	clean-up artist
Nikolett Durucz	....	clean-up artist
Nikolett Durucz	....	inbetween artist
Róbert Egri	....	layout artist
Stefan Eickhoff	....	clean-up artist
Victor Ens	....	animator
Miklós Erdei	....	animator
Joke Eycken	....	animator
Éva Faragó	....	clean-up artist
Éva Faragó	....	inbetween artist
Norbert Fejes	....	inbetween artist
Ákos Feyér	....	animator
Cornelia Freche	....	background painter
Zsuzsanna Fábián	....	clean-up artist (as Fábián Zsuzsi)
Zsuzsanna Fábián	....	inbetween artist (as Fábián Zsuzsi)
Uwe Fährmann	....	animator
Uwe Fährmann	....	inbetween artist
Tobias Gembalski	....	animator
Ulf Grenzer	....	animator
Anja Gruner	....	clean-up artist
Tamás Gyapai	....	animator
Tamás Gyapai	....	layout artist
Carolin Görtler	....	clean-up assistant
Sinan Güngör	....	animator
Steffi Hartmann	....	clean-up artist
Andreas Heinrich	....	background painter
Heiko Hentschel	....	animator
Anja Hiesener	....	animator
Magnus Hjerpe	....	animator
Anett Horváth	....	clean-up artist
Anett Horváth	....	inbetween artist
Anita Horváth	....	inbetween artist
Imre Horváth	....	clean-up artist
Tibor Huszák	....	animator
Michael Hübinger	....	clean-up artist
Katrin Inzinger	....	clean-up artist
Anna Jander	....	background painter
Anna Jander	....	background supervisor: MotionWorks (as Anna Janders)
Saskia Jannicke	....	animator
Saskia Jannicke	....	clean-up artist
Nóra Javorniczky	....	animator
Csilla Jelen	....	clean-up artist
Joah Hagen Jensen	....	clean-up artist
Elena Karloff	....	clean-up artist
André Kasselt	....	clean-up artist
Nataliya Kharlampiyeva	....	background painter (as Natalija Kharlampiyeva)
Celine Kiernan	....	animator
Ádám Klausz	....	shadow artist
János Kláb	....	clean-up artist
János Kláb	....	inbetween artist
László Klótz	....	animator
Linda Kohlbaum	....	animator
Erika Kordás	....	inbetween artist
Mihály Kosaras	....	layout artist
Annamária Kovács	....	inbetween artist
Marian Krafczyk	....	clean-up artist
Astrid Krejbjerg	....	animator
Gabriella Krisztián	....	clean-up artist
Enikõ Kõhalmi	....	clean-up artist
Ági Köhler	....	clean-up artist
Astrid Küver	....	background painter
István Lakatos	....	animator
Larisa Lauber	....	clean-up artist
Niall Laverty	....	inbetween artist
Zoltán Lázár	....	animator
László Lõrincz	....	layout artist
Susanne Manke	....	background painter
Zsolt Maticska	....	layout artist
Paul McKeown	....	animator
Luba Medekova-Klein	....	animator (as Lubica Medekova-Klein)
Réné Meier	....	clean-up artist
Réné Meier	....	clean-up supervisor: MotionWorks
Uriel Mimran	....	animator
Gyöngyi Molnár	....	clean-up artist
Gyöngyi Molnár	....	inbetween artist
Klára Mészáros	....	clean-up artist
Éva Mózes	....	clean-up artist
Éva Mózes	....	inbetween artist
Mandy Müller	....	clean-up artist
Angelika Nagy	....	clean-up artist
Judit Nagy	....	inbetween artist
Lajos Nagy	....	animation supervisor
Lajos Nagy	....	animator
Lajos Nagy	....	layout artist
Lajos Nagy	....	layout supervisor
Patrizia Nasi	....	animator (as Patrizia Nafi)
David Neckenig	....	layout checker
Valerio Nervi	....	background painter
Corinna Nickel	....	animator
Ralph Niemeyer	....	layout artist
Uli Nitzsche	....	animator
Suzanna Nyári	....	clean-up artist (as Szuzi Nyári)
Suzanna Nyári	....	inbetween artist (as Szuzi Nyári)
Erzsébet Nyírõ	....	animator (as Erzsébet Juhászné Nyirö)
Zsuzsanna Nyúl	....	animator
Zsuzsanna Nyúl	....	layout artist
Bernadett Odrobina	....	clean-up artist
Grete Oehmichen	....	clean-up artist (as Grete Oemichen)
Ovidiu Paltineanu	....	animator (as Páltineanu Ovidiu)
Hermann Pasitka	....	animator
András Paul	....	inbetween artist
Delia Pereira-López	....	background painter
Laila Petersen	....	clean-up artist
Holger Pfläging	....	animator
Gábor Pichler	....	animator
Gábor Pichler	....	layout artist
Alexander Pick	....	clean-up artist
Frank Pimenta	....	animator (as Franck Pimenta)
Evgenios Plakias	....	animator
Alina Popovici	....	inbetween artist
Oszkár Prell	....	animator
Pavla Provazníková	....	clean-up artist
Gabriella Prunner	....	clean-up artist
Gabriella Prunner	....	inbetween artist
Batmjagmar Puravjav	....	inbetween artist
Randi Pusch	....	background painter
Mónika Pánczel	....	clean-up artist (as Móni Pánzél)
Rita Péli	....	inbetween artist
Eszter Pócs	....	inbetween artist
István Roth	....	layout artist
Rita Réczicza	....	inbetween artist
Gabriella Révész	....	clean-up artist
Gabriella Révész	....	inbetween artist
Bori Sajó	....	clean-up artist
Julia Sand-Ilhan	....	background painter
Nadja Sasse	....	clean-up artist
Nadja Sasse	....	inbetween artist
Stig Saxegaard	....	animator
József Schibik	....	animator
Róbert Schindler	....	clean-up artist (2004)
Róbert Schindler	....	inbetween artist (2004)
Christian Schlierkamp	....	clean-up artist
Robert Schlunze	....	digital background touch-up
Stefanie Schmiedel	....	background artist
Steffen Schneider	....	clean-up artist
Annekathrin Schreiber	....	background painter
Therese Schreiber	....	clean-up artist
Tilman Seelenmeyer	....	digital background touch-up
Katharina Siebenborn	....	background painter
Gregory Sokol	....	clean-up artist
Magdalena Sorgenlos-Chrzanowska	....	background painter (as M. Sorgenlos-Chrzanowska)
Magdalena Sorgenlos-Chrzanowska	....	layout artist (as M. Sorgenlos-Chrzanowska)
Elke Stoessel	....	assistant animation director
Susanne Sturesson	....	animator
Matthias Surges	....	background painter
Gyula Szabó	....	layout supervisor
Edit Szalay	....	animator
Andrea Szegfü	....	clean-up artist
László Szilágyi	....	background painter
Csaba Szórády	....	animator (as Csaba Szórádi)
Anna Takács	....	clean-up supervisor
János Takács	....	clean-up artist
Péter Takács	....	clean-up supervisor
József Tari	....	animator
Elena Tarnoldi	....	layout checker
Péter Tenkei	....	layout supervisor
János Tikovits	....	layout artist (as János Tikovics)
Béla Timbusz	....	animator
Robert Tomala	....	animator
Jeanet Trebbien	....	clean-up artist
Zsuzsa Turzó	....	clean-up artist (as Zsuzsanna Belevski)
Lajos Tóth	....	animator
László Tóth	....	animation supervisor (as László István Tóth)
László Tóth	....	layout artist
Roland Tóth	....	animator
Roland Tóth	....	layout artist
Andrea Tömösy	....	inbetween artist (as Andrea Tömössy)
Kris van Alphen	....	animation director
Carl Van Isacker	....	animator
Erika Varga	....	animator
Márta Varga	....	inbetween artist
Viktória Varga	....	inbetween artist
Andrea Vatau	....	clean-up artist
Gabriella Veres	....	clean-up artist (as Gabi Veress)
Zoltán Vitális	....	animator
Ute von Münchow-Pohl	....	animator
Jan Vorpahl	....	background painter
Katerina Vypelová	....	clean-up artist
Thomas Wellendorf	....	animator
Evelyn Weller	....	background painter
Martin Weller	....	clean-up artist
Peter Weller	....	animation supervisor
Annika Wirth	....	clean-up artist
Gillian Wood	....	background painter
Gillian Wood	....	clean-up artist
Bert Zierfuss	....	clean-up artist (as Bert Zierfuß)
Eszter Zsolnai	....	clean-up artist
Magda Éber	....	animator

Music Department
Lorne Balfe	....	additional composer: score
Bruce Fowler	....	orchestrator
Walt Fowler	....	orchestrator
Rick Giovinazzo	....	orchestrator
Nick Glennie-Smith	....	conductor
Dorothy Joo	....	score production coordinator
Mario Lauer	....	music editor
Henning Lohner	....	composer: additional music
Malcolm Luker	....	scoring mixer
Yvonne S. Moriarty	....	orchestrator
Dieter Müller	....	composer: additional music

Other crew
Rolf Giesen	....	scenario consultant
Annie Graham	....	production coordinator
René van der Winkel	....	administrator
Andrew Zack	....	assistant: Hans Zimmer

Thanks
Willi Geike	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Rothkirch Cartoon Film
• MotionWorks
• Comet Film (co-production)
• Warner Bros. (co-production)
• Animationsfabrik

Distributors

• Warner Bros. (2004) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Warner Home Video (2005) (Germany) (DVD)
• Fox-Warner (2004) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Gébéka Films (2005) (France) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2005) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2005) (UK) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2005) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Animationsfabrik
• Optical Art (color correction)
• Optical Art (film recording)
• Optical Art (titles)

Other Companies

• Anvil Post Production  sound re-recording
• BKM  production promotion
• Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (FBB)  production promotion
• Filmförderung Hamburg  production promotion
• Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA)  production promotion
• Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen  project promotion
• Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM)  production promotion

Also Known As:

"Lauras Stern" - Germany (original title)

Runtime:

Germany:75 min | UK:80 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Netherlands:AL | Portugal:M/4 | Germany:o.Al. | UK:U

Company:

Rothkirch Cartoon Film

Quotes:

[first lines]
Laura:[sighs and presses against her bedroom window] Ugh. Mom, Dad, where's the apple tree?
Mother:Oh, Laura, sweetheart. Has your spacecraft survived the move in one piece? And your flight? Come on, tell us a bit about it.
Laura:Mm. It was all a bit much, if you don't mind me saying. During our landing, we drifted slightly off course, as you all know. Then I opened my curtains and hard a good look around, and what did I see? My lovely apple tree's not there, nor my friends. The meadow has also disappeared and the birdhouse, my seesaw, my flowers and my absolutely favorite place in the hill, and...
[...]

Movie Connections:

References The Little Polar Bear: Lars and the Little Tiger (2002) (V)

Soundtrack:

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Anyone who enjoys the book will love the movie!

Laura's Star is a beautiful story about seven year old Laura who has moved from the country to the town with her family, Mum, Dad and little brother. She's lonely and needs a friend. One night whilst out gazing out into the night, she sees something fall from the sky. She follows the light and finds that it was a star which, having been broken in the fall, needs someone to care for it. I won't spoil the story for those who haven't read the book!

The animation is beautiful, and there's just enough detail added to make a full length movie without taking away from the original story.

Watch Laura's Star through the eyes of an infant and it's MAGICAL!