Sophie and Virginie

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Television series
German title Sophie and Virginie
Original title Sophie et Virginie
Country of production France
original language French
year 1990
length 22 minutes
Episodes 52 in 2 seasons
Theme music Dorothée -Theme
music Gérard Salesses
First broadcast December 12, 1990 on TF1 - Club Dorothée
German-language
first broadcast		 March 13, 1995 on RTL 2

Sophie and Virginie ( French: Sophie et Virginie ) is an animated series by author Jean Chalopin from 1990. There are a total of two seasons with 52 episodes.

Action of the 1st season

Sisters Sophie and Virginie Mercier lose their parents, two famous ethnologists , on an expedition in the African jungle after their plane crashes. Then the girls come to Madame Lassart's orphanage. They are initially not allowed to see each other there, but then manage to meet. While Sophie quickly makes new friends, including the young Paul, Virginie suffers a lot from the attacks of her classmates Nathalie and Nicole. Only her roommate Marie sticks to her. Sophie and Virginie both firmly believe that their parents are still alive.

Later, the girls get to know other important people, such as the journalist Catherine Dupuis and the researcher Frédéric Rochambeau, who are both interested in the disappearance of the Merciers and confront the sisters with the fact that their parents were persecuted by a mysterious organization, and the doctor Dr . Franck and the sports teacher Julien. These develop into confidants for the girls until it turns out that both belong to the organization and Dr. Franck is even their leader. Finally, the Mercier family reunited.

In the episode The Unreasonable Director , it turns out that Madame Lassart is widowed and that the founding of the orphanage was her late husband's great dream. Virginie learns this from the village pastor, who is friends with Madame Lassart and was also Monsieur Lassart's best friend, when Virgnie is looking after the sick headmistress in his house. He shows Virginie a photo of Monsieur Lassart. When Sophie and Virginie are supposed to clean up their office after the director's recovery before she comes back, which is a gift from Madame Lassart so that they can see each other, they see a picture of Monsieur Lassart hanging on the wall. Virginie tells Sophie who this man was and that she suspects Paul will look very much like him as an adult.

Action of the 2nd season

As the best in class at her university, Virginie wins a research trip to Africa. After the end of the last semester, she will take on this position with Catherine, Frédéric, Sophie and Paul. Sophie also secretly cheats on her dog Tudor. Immediately after arriving in Tanzania , Virginie hired the tour guide Malumba, who Frédéric soon found strange. It quickly turns out that a series of unfortunate coincidences such as ant attacks and diseases are no accident. As in the first season, Dr. Franck behind everything, including Malumba and the sorceress Ganola, are part of the organization whose goal is to capture Sophie and Virginie and reverse the polarity so that they can be used against their parents. After some struggles and hardships, the five expedition members, alongside a group of allies from the jungle, manage to defeat the organization, which ultimately also leads to the death of Malumba and the capture of Dr. Franck ends.

Production and publication

The series was produced in 1990 on behalf of the French broadcaster TF1 and was first broadcast in France from December 12, 1990, and in Italy from October 1993. In Germany, the series was part of the children's program “Vampy” (1993–2001) on RTL II .

Figures and synchronization

Sorted according to the order of occurrence.

Since the speakers in the original episodes - v. a. Concerning the first season - often changed (through), the following overview only lists the "main voices" through which a figure was most frequently synchronized. If several names are listed, speakers either followed one another, specifying the respective episode size, or alternated regularly. Other voices that have not been taken into account here are listed separately, including those for secondary characters who were given several voices and therefore no serious proportionality can be identified. The comment “diverse” then refers to this sub-category, in which all the voiced appearances of an episode are taken into account. If, on the other hand, the speaker of a figure is unknown, the corresponding column remains empty.

The few characters that can be heard consistently in the original with the same dubbing voice are Sophie , Virginie and Frédéric (across both seasons) as well as Killer Antoine , Malumba , Khartouk , Chief Zulanka , Dumari , (possibly Junko ), Boya and Katori (all season 2).

Consistent main characters

Original speaker German voice actors figure consequences Seasons
Virginie Ledieu Debora refuses Virginie Mercier aka Dr. Emilie Noulan 1-52 1-2
Céline Monsarrat (up to episode 29)
Françoise Pavy (from episode 50) 		Judy Winter Prof. Caroline Mercier 1-2, 23-29, 50-52 1-2
Amélie Morin Andrea Wick Sophie Mercier 1-52 1-2
- - Dog Tudor 1-52 1-2
Daniel Russo (up to episode 28)
Michel Lasorne (from episode 50) 		Jan Spitzer Prof. Maurice Mercier 1-2, 23-28, 50-52 1-2
Marie Daëms Christel Merian Léontine Grandville 1-28, 50 1-2
Georges Aubert Otto Czarski Monsieur Claude 3-26 1
Anne Kerylen Viola Sauer Madame Lassart 3-27 1-2
Joëlle Fossier Mademoiselle Romy 3-26 1
Stéphanie Murat
Joëlle Guigui 		Ulrike Stürzbecher Nicole 3-26 1
Danièle Douet Elisabeth Günther Nathalie 3-26 1
Mireille Audibert Maja Dürr Madame Elsa 3-26 1
Bernard Soufflet Sebastian Schulz Brilli 1 3-26 1
David Lesser (up to episode 26)
Adrien Antoine (from episode 29) 		Gerrit Schmidt-Foss Paul 3-52 1-2
Valérie Siclay Anna Predleus Chrissi 3-26 1
Stéphanie Murat Melanie Hinze Marie 3-26 1
Michel Gudin Klaus Jepsen Dr. Franck 4-52 1-2
Agnès Gribe (up to episode 6)
Francine Lainé (from episode 15) 		Heike Schroetter Catherine Dupuis 5-6, 15-52 1-2
Lionel Tua Bernd Vollbrecht Julien Charon 8-26 1
Eric Legrand Matthias Hinze Frédéric Rochambeau 15-52 1-2
various Jörg Döring Tetou 20-26 1
Jean-Pierre Leroux Karl Schulz Antoine 28-52 2
Georges Lycan Tilo Schmitz Malumba † 28-52 2
Jeanine Freson Barbara Ratthey Ganola 28-52 2
Jacques Torrens Charles Rettinghaus Khartouk 28, 35-52 2
Jacques Torrens Zulanka 29-43 2
Greg Germain Klaus Lochthove Dumari 32-52 2
various Gaston 33, 45-52 2
Brigitte Lecordier Boy 35-52 2
Bianca Krahl Junko 35-52 2
Mathias Kozlowski Gerald Schaale Katori 39-52 2
1In episode 23, Brilli is called "Binocle" (nickname in the French original version) by Mme Lassart .

Minor minor characters

Original speaker German voice actors figure consequences Season
Notary Perrin 1-3, 17th 1
various Aunt Ursule 2, 16, 26 1
Joëlle Guigui Sonja Scherff Angela 5-6 1
various Gas station attendant 6-7, 12-13, 18-19 1
Jean Roche Pastor André 12-13, 15, 26 1
Anne Kerylen Marie's stepmother 16, 18 1
various Dr. Philipe "Phil" N'Daye 21-26 1
various Commissioner 22, 25-26 1
various magician 22, 25 1
various Karvenda 29, 36-52 2
various Katari 29-52 2
various Vanto 29-49 2
Jacques Torrens Toloti 40 2
Jean-Pierre Leroux Chief of the Hima 46-50 2

other voice actors:

Episode overview

The spelling of the German episode titles is based on the spelling of the lettering shown at the beginning of the episode.

season 1

episode Original title German title
(Graduation) (ongoing)
1.01 1 Une journée surprenante The good bye
1.02 2 Seules Terrible news
1.03 3 Le départ The new home
1.04 4th Sophie The grape harvest
1.05 5 Une visite mystérieuse The mysterious visit
1.06 6th Fausse slope Angela's mother
1.07 7th A double chance Unexpected reunion
1.08 8th Un nouveau professeur The new teacher
1.09 9 Un vent nouveau Fresh wind
1.10 10 Déception The outlier
1.11 11 Deux ombres in la nuit The great love
1.12 12 Le cadeau de Madame Lassart The unreasonable director
1.13 13 The pure de la fete du vin The wine festival
1.14 14th Un petit adapted Young mothers
1.15 15th Des nouvelles d'Afrique News from Africa
1.16 16 Une nuit à Marseille A letter from Marseille
1.17 17th Le printemps dans le coeur The Phantom
1.18 18th Julien disparaît Julien disappears
1.19 19th Une invitation de Lyon Secret trip to Lyon
1.20 20th Une ombre noire The organization
1.21 21st Le piège est tendu magic
1.22 22nd La magie noire africaine Failed hypnosis
1.23 23 Rendez-vous manqué The mysterious news
1.24 24 Si près l'un de l'autre The ad
1.25 25th Ultimate reunion The "great master"
1.26 26th Le return Farewell to the home

season 2

episode Original title German title
(Graduation) (ongoing)
2.01 27 Une reunion de famille future plans
2.02 28 L'annonce A devious plan
2.03 29 Premiers pas en Afrique Arrival in Africa
2.04 30th Le nouveau guide In the jungle
2.05 31 L'homme ensorcelé witchcraft
2.06 32 Now in the jungle The red ants
2.07 33 Une aide inespérée Jungle fever
2.08 34 La découverte At the small lake
2.09 35 Les secrets des crânes The secret of the cave
2.10 36 Decouverte et danger The stone eagle
2.11 37 Le grand aigle Sophie's kidnapping
2.12 38 La terrible rencontre The return of the great eagle
2.13 39 Nouveaux amis, vieux amis Old friends, new friends
2.14 40 Un village dangereux Sophie struggles
2.15 41 Le plan de Frédéric Ganola's elixir
2.16 42 La nuit la plus sombre The night of torment
2.17 43 D'un cauchemar surgit False promises
2.18 44 Voyage vers le maître In the valley of no return
2.19 45 Le face derriere le masque The face behind the mask
2.20 46 L'évasion Paul's escape
2.21 47 La course éperdue The search operation
2.22 48 Le sacrifice The solar eclipse
2.23 49 Sans return The trial of strength
2.24 50 Dernier espoir Virginie's change
2.25 51 Sophie revient The great eagle
2.26 52 Le combat final The last fight

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ First broadcast dates on the IMDb
  2. ↑ Program from March 20, 1995 on Retro-Media.de ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.retro-media.de
  3. ↑ Episode guide synchronization