Wednesday, July 11, 2007

MOOMINS - OPOWIADANIA MUMINKÓW

Often referred to as the 'fuzzy felt Moomins', this was the third production of five to make it to TV screens. It was made in Poland (Opowiadania Muminków) by Film Polski for Polish, Austrian and German television and later sold to the UK (among other places) where I think it really benefited from another integral ingredient, the voice of Richard Murdoch.

The series has been collected onto DVD. There are a 100 English episodes in all, edited down into 5 minute episodes from their original 78 x 30 minute episodes but you can watch the original episodes also (in German and sans Richard Murdoch's wonderful voice).

For more on Tove Jansson's Moomins I recommend you visit Brian Sibley's Ex Libris blog where he's written a wonderful piece about the books and their author.

3 comments:

Jay said...

MOOOOOOOOMINS! The collected edition of the Moomins newspaper strips is also great. Oddly soothing for bedtime reading, too.

Brian Sibley said...

Thanks for the link (I have reciprocated); glad to meet ANOTHER Moomi fan. :-)

And I really like your work...

I. N. J. Culbard said...

Many thanks, Brian, and welcome to Strange Planet.