Lotte and the secret of the moonstones

Movie
German title	Lotte and the secret of the moonstones
Original title	Lotte ja kuukivi saladus
Country of production	Estonia , Latvia
original language	Estonian
Publishing year	2011
length	75 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0
Rod
Director	Heiki Ernits Janno Põldma
script	Janno Põldma Heiki Ernits Andrus Kivirähk
production	Riina Sildos Kalev Tamm
music	Sven Grünberg
cut	Janno Põldma
synchronization

Lotte and the Secret of the Moonstones is an Estonian-Latvian animated film directed by Heiki Ernits and Janno Põldma from 2011 .

action

Evening comes in the inventors' village and Fly Jaak sends dog-girl Lotte to bed. She looks at the moon and wonders what it is made of. In the darkness, two creatures scurry through the village and hold a shoe they have brought to the feet of the sleeping residents. You will find it at Lotte's uncle Klaus: The shoe fits him. The two find a stone in his suitcase, but lose it when Lotte appears. She watched both beings from her window. She wakes Uncle Klaus to find out more about the stone. Klaus tells her how he was once on a hike with two friends and found a suitcase with three stones in a cave. In the cave he heard many beings and fled, losing a shoe. Each of the friends received a stone at the end.

The next morning Lotte and Klaus discovered by chance that the stone probably has mechanical capabilities. You decide to find the other two stones to see the real properties of the stones. The two males follow them on their journey. First, they both come to their first friend, who runs a dance school. He has not been able to enter the room in which the stone lies for a long time, because since then the plants in the room have proliferated and formed a jungle. Little Lotte, however, manages to get the stone out of the room. A singer is enthusiastic about the stone and a musician who loves the singer attaches himself to the trail of Lotte and Klaus like the two beings in order to get the stones for himself.

Lotte and Klaus go to their sleeping second friend. Lotte and the smaller of the two creatures penetrate his sleep and learn that the stone is no longer with him, but with the penguins on the penguin island. On the way to the boat that is supposed to bring them both to the island, both Klaus and the larger of the two creatures are attacked by a virus that causes salt column disease. Both are taken to a hospital. The smaller of the two steals the backpack with the stones and wants to go to the island alone, but Lotte catches up with him. The creature turns out to be a three-eared moon hare that goes by the name of Tik. He tells Lotte that all moon bunny children go on a school trip to earth once a year. Since Klaus had taken the moonstones, the children and their teachers could no longer travel back to the moon and have now been waiting for the next full moon and the chance to travel back to the moon for a year. The stones must be together in the evening to start the journey. Lotte and Tik drive to the penguin island and can get the last stone. Back at the moon bunnies, the musician manages to steal the stones for a short time, but Lotte and Tik manage to get the stones back in time. Klaus and Tik's teacher Rihv, in turn, get well again, so that the teacher can also start the journey to the moon. All three stones, placed in certain shapes, result in a plant that climbs up to the moon and serves as a kind of elevator for the moon bunnies. Only when all the moon rabbits have disappeared does Lotte realize that she has not asked anyone what the moon is made of.

production

Lotte and the mystery of the moonstones was the fourth feature film work in which Heiki Ernits and Janno Põldma worked together. They had also directed numerous short animated films together since the 1980s. The character of the dog girl Lotte was both created in 2000. She first became the main character in the Lotte series , an adventurous journey to the south ( Lotte reis lõunamaale ), which was broadcast in Germany by KiKa as part of the Sandman . The first full-length animation film followed in 2006 with Lotte in the Inventors' Village , which was a great success in the cinemas.

Lotte and the Mystery of the Moonstones opened in Estonian cinemas on August 25, 2011. It was first shown in Germany on February 13, 2012 at the Berlinale 2012 and was shown in German cinemas on September 20, 2012. The film was released on DVD in January 2013 and was shown for the first time on KiKa on German television on June 9, 2014 .

synchronization

role	Voice actor (original)	Voice actor (German version)
Lotte	Evelin Pang	Jodie Blank
Klaus	Margus Tabor
Tik	Mikk Juerjens
Rihv	Tõnu Oja
Yeah	Mait Malmsten	Stefan Staudinger

criticism

For the service movie- was Lotte and the mystery of moonstones an animated film, the children "in imaginative episodes with well-measured amounts of excitement and fun, the kind-spun fable to bizarre moon people and their risk return close [brings]". The “emphatically naively drawn figures” pass through a “colorful, sophisticated 3D-animated landscape, which, far from the cinema mainstream, opens up as a space worth discovering for fantasy, dreams and a respectful togetherness.” “Whimsical, eccentric, poetic: this is where it hits the fantasy somersaults ”, summarized Cinema .

Web links

• Lotte and the mystery of moonstones in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lotte and the secret of the moonstones on creative-europe-desk.de, August 29, 2012.
2. ↑ Annika Pham: Lotte From Gadgetville Nº1 . cineuropa.org, October 31, 2006.
3. ↑ On an adventure trip with a dog girl: “Lotte and the secret of the moonstones” / Premiere of the animated film on June 9th at KiKA . presseportal.de, June 5, 2014.
4. ↑ Lotte and the secret of the moonstones. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Lotte and the secret of the moonstones. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
6. ↑ Lotte and the secret of the mind stones on cinema.de