The author’s fascination with the comic book hero, journalist and reporter Tintin, his entourage, faithful dog Snowy and Captain Haddock, and especially with the author Georges Remi, the Belgian comic book writer and drawer better known as Hergé, resulted in this interesting animated-documentary work. Østergaard was especially fascinated with levels of relationships between Tintin and the author who was everything but a calm, stable and insusceptible person, so the special emphasis had been placed on Hergéove frame of mind and how it reflected in Tintin’s adventures. The invaluable help to the director was a twelve-hour tape of an interview with Hergé conducted by a 23-year-old student, in which otherwise reclusive artist completely opened up. The film opens with a fascinating 3D scene in which we are taken directly into a plane crash scene from a Tintin episode in Tibet. Then we take a walk across 200 meters of snow and a massive collage comprised of 1428 pages from Tintin albums, which constitute Hergé’s whole opus!
Andres Høgsbro Østergaard
Andres Høgsbro Østergaard was born in 1965 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1991 he got his degree in journalism (similar to comic book character Tintin). He got interested in documentary film while still attending high school and working as a script writer and investigative journalist in the documentary program. ‘Gensyn med Johannesburg’ (1996), ‘The Magus’ / ‘Troldkarlen’ (1999, awarded for the best documentary at the Odense Film Festival), and ‘Malaria!’ (2001) preceded ‘Tintin et Moi’.
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Tin Tin et Moi
Denmark
2004, 74', 35 mm
Directed by:
Andres Høgsbro Østergaard
Screenplay by:
Andres Høgsbro Østergaard
Cinematography:
Simon Plum
Edited by:
Anders Villadsen
Music:
Joachim Holbek
Producer:
Peter Bech
