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Tintin is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the series of classic Belgian comic books written and illustrated by Hergé. Tintin is the protagonist of the series, a reporter and adventurer who travels around the world with his dog Snowy.
Tintin debuted in Le Petit Vingtième on 10 January 1929. He was largely based on an earlier character created by Hergé, a chubby boy-scout named Totor. The comics starring Totor, Les aventures de Totor, chef de patrouille des Hannetons (The Adventures of Totor, Leader of the Cockchafer Patrol), appeared in the magazine Le Boy-Scout Belge between 1926 and 1929.
In the later comic book series, Tintin is a young reporter who is drawn to dangerous international intrigues in which his quick thinking, bravery and chronic good luck save the day. Almost every adventure features Tintin sent off to investigate an assignment, but rarely does he actually turn in a story without first getting caught up in an adventure. Although the strip was Belgian, Hergé was inconsistent or vague about assigning Tintin a nationality, depicting him instead as broadly European. In some of the early books, like Tintin in the Congo or The Black Island, a Belgian identity is fairly explicit. In The Secret of the Unicorn, the reader can unmistakably recognise the streets of Brussels at the beginning of the story. In the television series, Tintin states that he and Snowy are from Brussels in the episode of The Crab with the Golden Claws. Brussels is also explicitly mentioned as Tintin's home address in Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. In later adventures, as with other aspects of his character's history and family, Tintin's nationality is usually not directly stated, although some of the street scenes in The Red Sea Sharks have been identified as happening in Brussels.
Actors: Peter Jackson (director), Andy Serkis (actor), Peter Jackson (producer), Kathleen Kennedy (producer), Steven Spielberg (producer), Jamie Bell (actor), Anthony Horowitz (writer), Hergé (writer), Hergé (writer),
Genres: Adventure, Animation,Actors: Toby Jones (actor), Peter Jackson (producer), Andy Serkis (actor), Daniel Craig (actor), Tony Curran (actor), Simon Pegg (actor), Andy Serkis (actor), Daniel Craig (actor), Gad Elmaleh (actor), Cary Elwes (actor), Nick Frost (actor), Mackenzie Crook (actor), Mackenzie Crook (actor), Steven Spielberg (producer), Kathleen Kennedy (producer),
Plot: Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Tintin and Sakharine have one each and the villain intends to use the glass-shattering top Cs of operatic soprano the Milanese Nightingale to secure the third. With aid from bumbling Interpol agents the Thompson Twins our boy hero, his dog and the captain must prevent Sakharine from obtaining all three scrolls to fulfil the prophesy that only the last of the Haddocks can discover the treasure's whereabouts.
Keywords: 1940s, 3-dimensional, 3d, adventurer, alcoholic, ancestor, based-on-comic, based-on-comic-book, based-on-graphic-novel, bazookaActors: Jeremy Burdek (producer), Pierre Philippe Hendrickx (miscellaneous crew), Bastien Sirodot (miscellaneous crew), Iwona Sellers (miscellaneous crew), Adrian Politowski (producer), Martin Metz (miscellaneous crew), Mathilde Seigner (actress), Alain Chabat (actor), Nadia Khamlichi (producer), Gilles Waterkeyn (producer), Klaus Badelt (composer), Fred Testot (actor), Eric Elmosnino (actor), Christian Hecq (actor), Sylvie Landra (editor),
Plot: In the countryside of France, two groups of boys from the rural villages of Longeverne and Velran are in constant war against each other. Their war is a tradition that passes from father to son and without a motive but the rivalry between the peasants. During the Algerian War, the Longeverne boys are led by the intelligent William Lebrac, who has been the backer of his family since his father died, while the Velrans are led by the wicked Aztec. The boys are frequently fighting with their wooden swords, throwing rotten fruits or building traps in the woods expecting to remove the buttons from the enemies' clothes. But Lebrac is coming of age and he has a crush on the girl Lanterne while his teacher Merlin offers the chance for him to have a better study in another village.
Keywords: based-on-novel, betrayal, buttons, child-nudity, children, classroom, countryside, fight, humiliation, nudityActors: Florence Loiret Caille (actress), Gérard Blain (actor), Marc Chapiteau (actor), Georges Neri (actor), Philippe Hérisson (actor), Jean-Pierre Bastid (writer), Franck Libert (actor), Nicolas Simon (actor), Vincent Ozanon (actor), Vince Castello (actor), Jean-Charles Fonti (actor), Joseph Guinvarch (editor), Rémy Ventura (actor), Pierre Le Bret (writer), Claire Risterucci (costume designer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Paulette Dubost (actress), Jacques Boudet (actor), René Morard (actor), Nicolas Traube (miscellaneous crew), Maurice Chevit (actor), Annick Blancheteau (actress), Josiane Lévêque (actress), Jacques Bouanich (actor), Évelyne Dandry (actress), Sylvie Huguel (actress), Jacques Disses (actor), Diane Dassigny (actress), Delphine Wautier (miscellaneous crew), Valérie Vogt (actress), Jacqueline Jefford (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Daniel Gélin (actor), Yvan Attal (actor), Frédéric Saurel (actor), André Téchiné (writer), Florence Pernel (actress), Christian Vadim (actor), Jean-François Naudon (editor), Michèle Andreucci (writer), Bruno Dega (actor), Sylvette Frydman (producer), Candide Sanchez (actor), Jean-Paul Journot (actor), Valentin Breton Des Loys (costume designer), Régis Franc (director), Régis Franc (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Lucienne Hamon (actress), Micheline Presle (actress), John Ashton (actor), Catherine Arditi (actress), Lucienne Hamon (actress), Linda Lavin (actress), Geraldine Chaplin (actress), Jean Champion (actor), Jean Champion (actor), Gérard Depardieu (actor), Patrick Bonnel (actor), François-Eric Gendron (actor), Françoise Bertin (actress), Caroline Sihol (actress), Ludivine Sagnier (actress),
Plot: Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist, accepts an invitation to come to an exhibition in Paris, because his estranged daughter Elsie is a student there. He arrives with his girlfriend Lena, and very soon wants to go home as the culture shock is too much for him. Elsie puts off meeting him because she is busy trying to find Professor Christian Gauthier, in order to get him to read her thesis on Flaubert. However Gauthier is enamored with American culture, and invites Joey and some other Americans to his mother's house for the weekend. Elsie arrives at the gathering in time for the masquerade party and to see her father beginning to appreciate French culture.
Keywords: cartoonist, comics, costume, cult-director, culture-clash, director, extramarital-affair, france, language-barrier, lecturerActors: Julien Guiomar (actor), Richard Bohringer (actor), Georges Lycan (actor), Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (actress), Jeanne Herviale (actress), Jean-Luc Porraz (actor), Smaïn (actor), Pierre Arditi (actor), Jean-Paul Muel (actor), Simon Michaël (actor), Simon Michaël (writer), Donald Pilon (actor), Anne-Marie Garcia (miscellaneous crew), Smaïl Mekki (actor), Georges Trillat (actor),
Plot: Simon is a police officer at the Crime Repression Brigade. His boss, Pierre Tramoni, was his colleague for a long time before he became director of the Brigade. Tramoni is brilliant. He wants to move up fast and he's making it. Simon, for his part, likes the street, its odors, its mysteries. He's a hunter. For a few months, Simon and his men have been following a dangerous gang of young hoods; the Dijan brothers. Their goal: to catch them red-handed. In conducting his investigation, Simon discovers strange links between Tramoni and the gangsters he is after. The relationship between Simon and Tramoni takes another turn as Simon carefully prepares a ploy to uncover his boss' covert actions.
Keywords: gang, police-officerActors: Jacques Ciron (actor), Jacques Balutin (actor), Henri Virlojeux (actor), Alain Nobis (actor), Micheline Dax (actress), Pierre Collet (actor), Paul Rieger (actor), Guy Piérauld (actor), Jean Berger (actor), Jacques Ferrière (actor), Georges Atlas (actor), Georges Hubert (actor), Nathalie Nerval (actress), Serge Nadaud (miscellaneous crew), Serge Nadaud (actor),
Plot: Tintin is sent to guard an absent-minded professor in a Balkan country, but a local criminal tries to lure him away by kidnapping two children. The professor, however, has invented a machine that can duplicate anything.
Keywords: based-on-comic, based-on-comic-book, based-on-graphic-novel, lake, submarine, tintin, u-boat