Once upon a time ... life
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Once upon a time ... life |
| Original title | Il était une fois ... la vie |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| year | 1986 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 26 ( list ) |
| genre | documentary |
| Theme music | "It's beautiful life" by Gabie Loh in the original: hymn à la vie by Sandra Kim |
| idea | Albert Barillé |
| music | Michel Legrand |
| First broadcast | 1986 on FR3 |
| German-language first broadcast |
September 3, 1990 on Das Erste |
Once upon a time ... life ( French Il était une fois ... la Vie ) is a French animated series that was created in 1986 and is one of a series of series entitled Once Upon a Time .
content
The series explains the processes in the human body. The protagonists are, on the one hand, young people who experience various life processes, such as eating, metabolism and illness, and, on the other hand, anthropomorphic elements of the microscopic world such as blood cells, messenger substances or nerve impulses that are on their way through the body. To do this, they use motorcycle or spaceship-like vehicles and engage in firefights with intruders (bacteria, viruses).
Episode list
| No. | French title | German title | theme |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La planète cellule | A little miracle or the cell | cell |
| 2 | La naissance | A person arises or the birth | Pregnancy and childbirth |
| 3 | Les sentinelles du corps | Always ready! or the body's defense system | immune system |
| 4th | La moelle osseuse | Hard shell - soft core or the bone marrow | Bone marrow |
| 5 | Le sang | A very special juice or Das Blut | blood |
| 6th | Les petites plaquettes | Help in an emergency or the platelets | Platelets |
| 7th | Le coeur | Yours is my whole ... or the heart | heart |
| 8th | La respiration | Take a deep breath or Breathing | breathing |
| 9 | Le cerveau | Think! or the brain | brain |
| 10 | Les neurones | There is only one or the nerve cells | Neurons |
| 11 | L'oeil | I see something or the eye | eye |
| 12 | L'oreille | Listen, what's coming in from outside or Das Ohr | ear |
| 13 | La peau | I feel it or the skin | skin |
| 14th | La bouche et les dents | He didn't drill at all! or mouth and teeth | Mouth and teeth |
| 15th | La digestion | Where to put it? or digestion | digestion |
| 16 | L'usine du foie | Fresh away! or from the liver | liver |
| 17th | Les reins | There are two of us or the kidneys | Kidneys |
| 18th | Le système lymphatique | The Great Stream or The Lymphatic System | Lymphatic system |
| 19th | Les os et le squelette | Stable and yet flexible, or bones and skeletons | Bones and skeleton |
| 20th | Les muscles et la graisse | When we feel our strength or muscles and energy | Muscles |
| 21st | Guerre aux toxines | It depends on the amount or toxins | Poison |
| 22nd | La vaccination | A great power from within or protection through vaccination | vaccination |
| 23 | Les hormones | Small but nice or the hormones | Hormones |
| 24 | Les chaînes de la vie | We love what is useful or the food chain | Food chain |
| 25th | Reparations and transformations | Everything has its time or renewal and change | Regeneration and transformation |
| 26th | Et la vie va ... | Off to the future! or The River of Life | Life cycle |
Production and publication
The series was produced by the French studio Procidis under the direction of Albert Barillé and by Eiken Co. in Japan. The music was composed by Michel Legrand. The broadcasts happened as follows. The series was released in German on VHS and DVD . The book series My Body - What is it? Was published in 1994 to accompany the animated film series . published by De Agostini. The book series comprises 58 volumes and a sticker album. The series could be purchased with or without the Once Upon a Time videotapes . In 2017 the series was released on Blu-ray, completely digitally restored .
| country | Charisma |
|---|---|
 France
|
FR3 , Canal + |
 Canada
|
CBC Television , Télévision de Radio-Canada |
 Croatia
|
HRT |
 Spain
|
Televisión Española (TVE) |
 Italy
|
Italia 1 |
 Netherlands
|
Katholieke Radio Omroep (KRO) |
 Switzerland
|
TSR (French), RTSI (Italian) |
 Belgium
|
RTBF , BRT |
 Greece
|
ERT |
 Czech Republic
|
Česká televize (ČST) |
 Japan
|
Eiken Co. Ltd. * |
 Slovakia
|
Slovenská televízia (STV) |
 Sweden
|
Sveriges Television (SVT) |
 Norway
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Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) |
 BR Germany
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ARD |
 Austria
|
ORF |
 Israel
|
Israeli Educational Television (IETV) |
 Poland
|
Telewizja Polska (TVP) |
 Portugal
|
RTP |
 Ireland
|
RTÉ |
 Syria
|
Syrian Public Channel 1 |
 Turkey
|
TRT |
 United Kingdom
|
Channel 4 |
 Slovenia
|
Radiotelevizija Slovenija 1 |
 Finland
|
YLE |
 Hungary
|
Minimax |
 Iceland
|
Sjónvarpið (RÚV) |
 South Korea
|
EBS |
 Morocco
|
RTM |
synchronization
The synchronization was carried out by Legard Synchron Berlin. Michael Richter directed the dialogue ; the dialogue book is by Eberhard Weiß .
| role | French speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Bacteria boss | Helmut Gauss | |
| Cop Dickie | Gilles Tamiz | Jörg Döring |
| Dickie | Björn Schalla | |
| teller | Norbert Gescher | |
| Commander of the Defense Forces | Rudiger Evers | |
| maestro | Roger Carel | Heinz-Theo branding |
| metro | Roger Carel | Georg Tryphon |
| Pierrot | Frank Schröder | |
| Psi | Marie-Laure Beneston | Dorette Hugo |
| Red blood cell globin | Marie-Laure Beneston | Edeltraut Elsner |
| Virus chief | Roger Carel |
Joachim Tennstedt Thomas Petruo |
| White blood cell 1 | Karl-Heinz Grewe | |
| White blood cell 2 | Gerald Paradise |
Criticism of the German dubbed version
In the third episode, in the German version, one of the staphylococci calls out "Oy vey gevalt" - a Yiddish expression of horror - just before they are gassed by the blue Wüterich (a T-lymphocyte). The French original contains no allusion to the Third Reich . In April 2020, journalist Stefan Niggemeier dedicated an article to this scene in the online magazine Übermedien , in which he described the German dubbing as deeply anti-Semitic . He turned to Studio Hamburg Enterprises , a subsidiary of NDR , which now sells the series. According to Niggemeier, the company announced that it would check whether this passage could be removed from the German synchronization, at least on digital distribution platforms. A text in the trivia section of the sales company's website has also been removed. It pointed out the difference between the original and the German version, supplemented by the specification that this was “an allusion to the crimes in the Third Reich”. The scope of the anti-Semitic representation was not recognized when designing the website. In the meantime, the video-on-demand provider Netflix has completely removed the German soundtrack from this episode until a new version has been created in which the relevant section is replaced by the original French sound.
Web links
- Official website (German, English, French)
- Once Upon a Time ... Life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Once upon a time ... life in the online film database
- Once upon a time ... the life at Fernsehserien.de
- Once upon a time ... life at Animated Series.de
- Once upon a time ... life in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of episodes for Once upon a time ... life on cartoonserien.de
- ↑ a b Once upon a time ... life in the German dubbing index
- ↑ YouTube excerpt at time index 7:30
- ↑ a b Stefan Niggemeier: Once upon a time ... anti-Semitism. In: Übermedien. April 29, 2020, accessed April 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Archived version of the website hellomaestro.de , accessed on April 29, 2020.