Tintin et le lac aux requins (1972)

Belgium, 1972
colour
mono

A Belgian animated fantasy television film directed by Raymond Leblanc.

Plot Summary

Tintin is hired to protect an absent-minded professor in a Balkan state, but the scientist’s children are kidnapped by a local criminal. Tintin’s chief weapon against the criminal mastermind is a machine invented by the professor which can make exact duplicates of anything.

Credits

Crew
Director: Raymond Leblanc
Dargaud Films, Raymond Leblanc
Script: Greg [real name: Michel Régnier.[/mfn]
Adaptation: Jos Marissen, Eddie Lateste, Rainer Gocksch, Jean-Michel Charlier
Characters: Hergé
Supervising Animator: Sam Gahide
Directors of Photography: François Léonard, Jean Midre, Jean-Michel Urbain
Editor: Jean-Pierre Cereghetti
Music: François Rauber
Sound Engineers: Jean Nény, Jacques Maumont, Claude Ermelin
Special Effects: Eddie Lateste
Art Director: Paulette Melloul

Cast
Jacques Careuil (Tintin)
Georges Atlas
Jacques Balutin
Nadine Basile
Jean Berger
Edmond Bernard
Claude Bertrand
Jacqueline Brasseur
Jacques Ciron
Pierre Colet
Micheline Dax (Bianca Castafiore)
Jacques Ferriere
Georges Hubert
Serge Nadaud
Maurice Nasil
Nathalie Nerval
Alain Nobis
Guy Piérauld
Paul Rieger
Michel Thomas
Jacques Vinitzki (Niko)
Marie Vinitzki (Nouchka)
Henri Virlojeux
Nicolas Youmatoff

Alternative Titles

Tim und Struppi und der Haifischsee – Germany
Tintin and the Lake of Sharks – English language title
Tintin i hajsjön – Sweden
Tintti Haijärvellä – Finland

References

Books

  • French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Pulp Fiction by Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier p.125
  • Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.400
  • Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.494 – credits