Marco (cartoon series)

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Television series
German title Marco
Original title Haha o Tazunete Sanzen Ri
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
year 1976
length 24 minutes
Episodes 52
idea Edmondo De Amicis
production Kōichi Motohashi
Takaji Matsudo
Junzō Nakajima
music Kōichi Sakata
Christian Bruhn (German version)
First broadcast Jan 4th - December 26th 1976 on Fuji TV
German-language
first broadcast		 January 9, 1980 on Bavarian TV
synchronization

Marco ( Japanese. 母 を た ず ね て 三 千里 , Haha o tazunete sanzen ri , dt. About: "3000 miles in search of mother") is a Japanese anime series by Isao Takahata from 1976. It belongs to World -Masterpiece Theater Series. Based on the story Dagli Appennini alle Ande ("From the Apennines to the Andes ") in the novel Cuore by the Italian writer Edmondo De Amicis , the story of the boy Marco is told, who goes in search of his mother with his monkey Pepino .

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Little Marco lives with his family in Genoa. Everyone except him knows that his mother will emigrate to Argentina to earn money there. Marco misses her terribly. When the letter contact suddenly breaks off, he has the incredible plan to travel to distant Argentina himself. Accompanied by his little monkey Peppino, a wondrous odyssey begins for Marco.

Production and publication

The series was produced in 1976 by Nippon Animation Studio and directed by Isao Takahata . The character design was created by Yōichi Kotabe and the artistic director was Takashi Mukuo. The series was broadcast from January 4, 1976 to December 26, 1976 in Japan by Fuji TV .

In Germany, the episodes were broadcast on Bavarian television from January 9, 1980 , and then on other regional channels on ARD .

In 1999, a summary of the series was released as a feature film directed by Kōzō Kusuba with a different cast. Another film adaptation of the story is the mini-series Marco - Across the Seas and Mountains from 1991.

The series has been translated into Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, among others. The German version was published by Epix Media.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Marco Rossi Yoshiko Matsuo Manou Lubowski
Antonio "Tonio" Rossi Kazuyuki Sogabe Peter Ehret
Pablo Mie Azuma Kurt Marquard
Conchetta Noriko Ohara Marina Koehler
Pietro Rossi (Marco's father) Kiyoshi Kawakubo Eberhard Mondry
Anna Rossi (Marco mother) Yukiko Nikaidō Heidi Fischer
Violetta Scarlet Lubowski
Gina Akiko Tsuboi Monika Madrat
Emilio Chie Kitagawa → Kuriko Komamura Jan Odle
Bruno Gernot Duda
Girotti Ryūsuke Shiomi Dietrich Thomas
Pepe Ichirō Nagai Bruno Walter Pantel
Dr. Rispoli Paul Friedrichs
Carlos Kōhei Miyauchi Peter Capell
Dr. Ron Baldini Toshiya Ueda Till Kiwe
Katarina Miyoko Aso Maria Landrock
Sandoro Gobbi Iemasa Kayumi Herbert Weicker
teller Akiko Tsuboi Manfred Seipold

music

The music for the Japanese version was composed by Kōichi Sakata. Christian Bruhn created the background music for the German version, sung by Gitti & Erika . The opening title of the original is Sōgen no Marco , the credits song Kāsan Ohayō , both by Kumiko Ōsugi.

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