Kiriku and the wild animals

Movie
German title	Kiriku and the wild animals
Original title	Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages
Country of production	France
original language	French
Publishing year	2005
length	75 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0
Rod
Director	Bénédicte Galup Michel Ocelot
script	Philippe Andrieux Bénédicte Galup Marie Locatelli Michel Ocelot
production	Didier Brunner
music	Manu Dibango Youssou N'Dour Rokia Traoré
synchronization
chronology
←  Predecessor Kiriku and the Sorceress Successor  → Kiriku and the men and women

Kiriku and the Wild Animals is a 2005 French cartoon directed by Bénédicte Galup and Michel Ocelot .

action

The wise grandfather reports that his stories about Kiriku and the sorceress have not yet been told. He begins to tell more episodes from the life of the very small, but also very smart and fast Kiriku from Africa:

Kiriku had brought the water back to the village. Now the residents begin to plant and irrigate fields. For this they give their last plants and fruits. The plantings are flourishing, but one morning all the beds are devastated. The residents believe that the evil sorceress Karaba destroyed the harvest, but it soon becomes apparent that it was a large black hyena . Kiriku manages to drive the hyena out of the village and set a swarm of bees on them. The reason why the hyena destroyed the fruit in the first place is soon to be found: It had hunted an injured ground squirrel that had escaped in the beds.

The harvest has been destroyed and the villagers have nothing left to buy food with. Kiriku introduces the residents to the art of pottery, as the soil is very clayey . Soon the whole village was involved in the manufacture of bowls, jugs and other vessels. Kiriku is laughed at by the big children, he can only create very small bowls, which he decorates artfully. After a night in which the vessels are burned, some villagers set out for the town where they want to sell the goods. The way is difficult and soon the children and women complain that their burden is too heavy. They find an apparently ownerless buffalo that they use as a transport animal. Kiriku warns in vain that it could be a trap by Karaba. He is the only one who carries his goods to the city himself. Shortly before the city walls, the buffalo breaks free and throws off the vessels that break. Only Kiriku can sell his vessels and buy food for the village. Karaba, who just wanted to triumph, loses.

One morning Kiriku found a strange trail in front of his tent that indicated a three-legged bird. Despite his mother's warning, he moves too far from the village and suddenly sees himself surrounded by the henchmen of Karabas, the wooden fetishes. They want to arrest him, but he escapes into a tree. A giraffe appears and he climbs on top of her head. During the day he gets to know completely new places in Africa. He can finally escape the fetishes that follow the giraffe when she bends down to drink. The fetishes that want to follow him across the river are swept away by the current.

Beer was brewed in the village. The women of the village try it, although one notes that the beer has a strange aftertaste. The next morning all women are seriously ill and Kiriku finds a poisonous flower in the beer mug that grows near Karaba's hut. The only antidote, a yellow flower, can also be found there. The village children build a fetish figure out of a mortar, which is controlled by Kiriku. So he gets to Karaba's hut unnoticed and can collect the life-saving plants. Too late, the sorceress Karaba realizes that she has been tricked. The villagers, however, celebrate Kiriku.

production

In 1998, Michel Ocelots Kiriku and the Sorceress appeared. The film, based on African fairy tales, was a huge hit with audiences and received numerous awards. Kiriku and the Wild Animals takes up the plot of the first film about little Kiriku, but without being a direct sequel. Rather, the introduction by the wise grandfather indicates that the plot picks up on a scene from the first part in which Kiriku brought the water back to the villagers. In an interview, director Michel Ocelot called the film a variation of the first, so viewers wouldn't have cared how Kiriku grew up. In contrast to the first film, Kiriku and the Wild Animals has an episodic structure, with each of the four stories being introduced by the wise grandfather.

Kiriku and the Wild Animals was made as a cartoon, with studios from France, Latvia and Vietnam involved in the implementation. The drawings are based on the "fine arts from Africa: clear lines, slight overdrawings and a lot of magic."

Kiriku and the Wild Animals premiered on May 13, 2005 at the Cannes International Film Festival . It was released in French cinemas on December 7, 2005, where it was seen by around two million viewers. In Germany it was released in cinemas on October 5, 2006 and was released on DVD in April 2007. The film was shown for the first time on German television on October 11, 2011 on ZDFkultur . In 2012, a third film about the boy Kiriku appeared with Kiriku and the men and women ; Again directed by Michel Ocelot.

synchronization

role	Voice actor (original)	Voice actor (German version)
Kiriku	Pierre-Ndoffé Sarr	Tobias John von Freyend
Karaba	Awa Sene Sarr	Elisabeth Günther
grandfather	Robert Liensol	Jochen Striebeck
mother	Marie-Philomène Nga	Carin Tietze
uncle	Emile Abossolo M'bo	Mike Carl
the old	Pascal N'Zonzi	Günther Wolff
neighbor	Marthe Ndome	Eva Maria Bayerwaltes
big girl	Emilie Gaydu	Marcia from Rebay
big boy	Gwénaël Sommier	Marco Iannotta
Roof fetish	Jean Bediebe	Thomas Albus

criticism

"Despite the occasional idealization, the warm-colored film impresses with its calm and peacefulness and can also bring young children closer to a continent surrounded by clichés," wrote the film-dienst . “The easily understandable story addresses the importance of family and moral courage without being too instructive,” said Cinema . “With its extraordinary drawing style, the trick adventure 'Kiriku 2' is also an exotically beautiful spot in the otherwise American-dominated animation world,” said the Focus . In his review in Tagesspiegel, Manfred Hobsch described animation as a “rollback to classic animation, which fits well with the naivety of longing for an intact world of values ​​such as courage and a sense of family. Colorful fables for the very youngest moviegoers. ”For the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the film was especially wonderful,“ when it reduces the plot to simple sequences, following the water that rushes through the newly dug canal channels - stylization that is created by simple mechanics. ”

Awards

Kiriku and the Wild Animals won the 2006 Children's Jury Prize at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival . In the same year he received the award for the best animated feature film at the Stuttgart Animated Film Festival .

Web links

• Kirikou and the Wild Beasts in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Kiriku and the wild animals on kinderkinobüro.de, p. 2 (PDF).
2. ↑ Gerhard Midding: "Being naked is beautiful". A conversation with Michel Ocelot about the cartoon "Kiriku and the wild animals" . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 4, 2006, p. 32.
3. ↑ Catherine Silberschmidt: "African" animation . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 6, 2006, p. 45.
4. ↑ Kiriku and the wild animals  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   . fr-online.de
5. ↑ See Kiriku and the wild animals on allocine.fr
6. ↑ Kiriku and the wild animals on bravo.de, July 9, 2010.
7. ↑ Kiriku and the Wild Animals. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
8. ↑ Kiriku and the wild animals on cinema.de
9. ↑ New in the cinema . In: Focus , October 2, 2006, p. 90.
10. ↑ Manfred Hobsch: Colorful Africa . In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 5, 2006, p. T05.
11. ^ Fritz Göttler: Magic of Realism . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 7, 2006, p. 15.