Jim Knopf (cartoon series)
Television series | |
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Original title | Jim button |
Country of production |
Germany , France |
year | 1999 |
length | 25 minutes |
Episodes | 52 in 2 seasons |
genre | adventure |
idea | Theo Kerp, Heribert Schulmeyer |
music | Michel Dax |
First broadcast | August 26, 1999 to September 30, 2000 on Cartoon Network |
German-language first broadcast |
November 12, 1999 on KI.KA |
Jim Knopf is a German-French animated series with 52 episodes that was created from 1999 to 2000 in cooperation with ARD and is based on the books Jim Knopf and Lukas the locomotive driver and Jim Knopf and the Wilde 13 by Michael Ende .
action
King Alfonso the Quarter-to-Twelfth and his three fellow citizens live on the small and quiet island of Lummerland. One day a baby is delivered to them in the mail. They adopt it and name it Jim Button . When it gets bigger, the island is too small for five residents. So Jim sets off with his friend Lukas to Land of Sorrows to free the princess of Mandala, Li-Si. This is held there by the evil dragon Frau Mahlzahn. Jim Knopf also wants to find his real parents. On his adventures his friends encounter all kinds of strange characters; new friends, but also a whole host of people who (initially) don't just mean well with them. They actually manage to free the princess and other captured children and bring them back to Mandala.
In another adventure, in which the search for the missing locomotive Molly plays a role, the friends manage to turn the dangerous gang of pirates "The Wild 13" over to the good side. In the process, Jim finally finds out where he comes from.
Deviations from the novel
Pi Pa Pos's role is much more extensive: While he is thrown into the dungeon by the emperor himself after he tried to have Jim and Lukas thrown into dungeon in the literature, he plays almost the entire series about the villain, including about much of the second season. His plan is to become Emperor of Mandala himself.
Mrs. Mahlzahn, together with her half-dragon guards, pursues the freed children. In Mandala there is another fight in which she is finally defeated. In the novel, she is defeated in the dragon city and taken to Mandala, where she submits without resistance to her liberators.
In the novel, Li Si is kidnapped during the big vacation because she runs too far from the vacation castle. In the series, Pi Pa Po has her kidnapped because she knows his plans to overthrow the emperor, her father.
The crystal of eternity originally only serves to prove that Ushaurischuum is a suitable bridegroom for Sursulapitschi. In the series it has a much greater power that the pirates want to exploit for themselves. The roles of Ushaurischuum and Nepomuk have also been expanded through the necessary forces of a water and fire being. You can also see how Molly is transformed.
Production and publication
The series was produced from 1999 to 2000 as a German-French co-production under the direction of Bruno Bianchi . From November 12, 1999, she was the KI.KA sent. Later broadcasts followed in the first and in the regional programs. In 2014 the series ran on the Disney Channel .
The music for the series was composed by Michel Dax. The title song was written and sung by the band Die Prinzen .
synchronization
Sorted by the character list in the article Jim Button and Lukas the Engine Driver.
role | speaker |
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Jim button | Konrad Bösherz |
Luke | Thomas Fritsch |
King Alfonso the quarter to twelfth | Wolfgang Gruner |
Mr. Sleeves | |
Mrs. Waas | Marie-Luise Marjan |
Ping pong | Santiago Ziesmer |
Oberbonze Pi Pa Po | Hans-Werner Bussinger |
Mr. Schu Fu Lu Pi Plu | Engelbert von Nordhausen |
Mr. Tur Tur | Hans Teuscher |
Emperor of China (Mandala) | Horst lamp |
Half dragon Nepomuk | |
Dragon woman molar | Gisela Fritsch |
Princess Li Si | Magdalena Turba |
King Lormoral | Klaus Sunshine |
Ushaurischuum turtle | Lutz Mackensy |
Sursulapichi | Nana Spier |
Pirate Captain of the Wild 13 | Wolfgang Hess |
Yetipletikreti * | Wolfgang Völz |
Kuddel Muddel * | Heinz-Theo branding |
Fish Wutschel * | Tom Deininger |
Bad Bad Ling * | Ilya Richter |
Su Lin * | Angelika Milster |
Captain Tao * | Jürgen Kluckert |
The characters marked with * do not exist in the book version by Michael Ende and have been added for the cartoon series.
Episode list
Total number |
Season | title |
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01 | 01.01 | A surprise package |
02 | 01.02 | Princess Li Si |
03 | 01.03 | Mandala |
04 | 04/01 | Off to grief land |
05 | 01.05 | The white marble palace |
06 | 01.06 | The western gate |
07 | 01.07 | The Thousand Wonder Forest |
08 | 08/01 | The melancholy swamps |
09 | 01.09 | The crown of the world |
10 | 01.10 | The valley of dawn |
11 | 01.11 | The gold mine |
12 | 01.12 | Commitment to Emma |
13 | 01.13 | Mr. Tur Tur |
14th | 01.14 | The gateway to the end of the world |
15th | 01.15 | In the shadowland |
16 | 01.16 | The mouth of despair |
17th | 01.17 | The trial by fire |
18th | 01.18 | In the land of a thousand volcanoes |
19th | 01.19 | The devil's throat |
20th | 01.20 | In tow to Kummerland |
21st | 01.21 | The dragon city |
22nd | 01.22 | Escape from the dragon city |
23 | 01.23 | The underground river |
24 | 01.24 | The wrong emperor |
25th | 01.25 | The fight with Mrs. Mahlzahn |
26th | 01.26 | Back to Lummerland |
27 | 02.01 | Jim Knopf and the wild 13 |
28 | 02.02 | Gurumusch's magnet |
29 | 02.03 | The perpetumobile |
30th | 04/02 | Mr. Tur Tur is scared |
31 | 02.05 | Molly is gone! |
32 | 02.06 | The prophecy of the golden dragon |
33 | 02.07 | A stowaway |
34 | 08/02 | The wild 13 strikes back |
35 | 02.09 | Ushaurischuum and the blue shells |
36 | 02.10 | Pi Pa Po takes off |
37 | 11/02 | Muddle Muddle |
38 | 02.12 | Jim trapped |
39 | 02.13 | The flying island |
40 | 02.14 | The lonely prince |
41 | 02.15 | The book castle |
42 | 02.16 | In the tin forest |
43 | 02.17 | The weather machine |
44 | 02.18 | Over the thousand mountain peaks |
45 | 02.19 | Emma makes music |
46 | 02.20 | Ping Pong's rescue |
47 | 02.21 | Return to the Dragon City |
48 | 02.22 | King Lormoral |
49 | 02.23 | Pi Pa Pos revenge |
50 | 02.24 | The country that shouldn't be |
51 | 02.25 | The crystal of eternity |
52 | 02.26 | The Prince of Jimballa |
Web links
- Jim Button in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jim Knopf at Fernsehserien.de
- Jim Knopf at Animation Series