Jannik Hastrup
Born: 1941-05-04 in Næstved, Denmark
Known For: Directing
Biography
Jannik Hastrup is a Danish writer, director, producer, illustrator and animator. He is considered "Denmark's grand master of animation", as he is particularly well known for directing, animating and writing several animated films, occasionally with Flemming Quist Møller, including Benny's Bathtub, Dreaming of Paradise, Samson & Sally, War of the Birds, The Monkeys and the Secret Weapon, The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear and A Tale of Two Mozzies. He also directed, wrote and animated a number of shorts following Cirkeline the elf. He also founded his own animation studio called "Dansk Tegnefilm".
Filmography
2025
- Cirkeline & the Invisible Artist as Self
2018
- Circleen, Coco and the Wild Rhinoceros ... (Director)
2016
- Cykelmyggens far as Self
2014
- Mini and the Mozzies ... (Director)
2008
- Cirkeline - De Go'e Gamle ... (Director)
2007
- A Tale of Two Mozzies ... (Director)
2005
- War and Peas ... (Director)
2004
- Cirkeline: Little Big Mouse ... (Director)
2002
- The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear ... (Director)
2000
- Circleen - Mice & Romance ... (Director)
1998
- Circleen - City Mouse ... (Director)
- Hans Christian Andersen and the Long Shadow ... (Director)
1996
- Tango Jalousie ... (Director)
1995
- The Secret Weapon ... (Director)
- Birdland - A Night in Tunisia ... (Director)
- Birdland - Dream a Little Dream of Me ... (Director)
1994
- Birdland - Over the Rainbow ... (Director)
1993
- Birdland - April in Paris ... (Director)
- Song of the Sea ... (Director)
1990
- War of the Birds ... (Director)
1988
- Take Care.... ... (Director)
1987
- Dreaming of Paradise ... (Director)
1986
- Animation Has No Borders ... (Animation)
1984
- Samson & Sally ... (Writer)
1981
- The Further Adventures of the Ugly Duckling ... (Writer)
1980
- The Thralls' Children ... (Director)
1979
- The Revolt of the Thralls ... (Director)
1978
- The Thralls ... (Director)
1974
- Historiebogen ... (Director)
1972
- Palestine - Denmark, Same Struggle ... (Writer)
1971
- Benny's Bathtub ... (Director)
- Revolutionen i vandkanten
- Circleen - The escape from America ... (Director)
- En hjertegribende historie as Speaker (voice)
1969
- Toppen og bolden ... (Animation)
1968
- Good Morning ... (Director of Photography)
1964
- ABC - Spelling Africa ... (Animation)
- Concerto Erotica ... (Director)