Männersache
English title: Lou's The Boss
Series titles: The Ugly Duckling And Me!, The Ugly Duckling & Me!, D
- Studio
- A. Film, ARD Degeto Film, Futurikon, Magma Films, Westdeutscher Rundfunk
- Animation studio
- Duran Animation Studio
- Distributor
- KIKA, Your Family Entertainment
Synopsis
When Ratso destroys the new books bound for the schoolhouse, a furious Daphne is forced to travel all the way back to the city to purchase a replacement set.
Characters
Ugly Duckling, Ratso
Credits
Directing
Producing
- Producer
- Irene Sparre Hjorthøj, Gladys Morchoisne, Seamus Mulligan
- Producers, Duran Animation Studio
- Pascal Hérold, Jacquemin Piel, Frederic Thonet
- Associate Producer
- Daina Sacco
- Creative Producer
- Moe Honan
- Executive Producers
- Ralph Christians, Philippe Delarue, Anders Mastrup
- Executive Producer, The Irish Film Board
- Noemi Ferrer
Writing
- Writer
- Richard Conroy, Ciaran Hayden, Michael Hegner, Mark Hodkinson, Karsten Kiilerich, Linda O'Sullivan, Emilie Saada, Marteinn Thorisson
- Based On The Original Takle By
- Hans Christian Andersen
Animation
- Animator
- Alexandre Baduel, Marc Beaujeau, Francois Cao, Pierre Collet-Derby, Nicolas Dabos, Guillame Dhont, Julien Hassenforder, Jean Hemez, Alexandre Henri, Bernard Lacroix, Jean-Charles Laurent, Alban Lelievre, Vincent Lemaire, Patricia Magniez, Vincent Odic, Marco Pacifici, Katia Paliotti, Philippe Penaud, Matthieu Razungles, Claude Ricros, Gael Sabourin, Fabrice Senia, Frederic Vico
Voices
- Voice
- Barbara Bergin, Hilary Cahill, Danna Davis, Eileen Gibbons, Morgan C. Jones (as Morgan Jones), Hillary Kavanagh, Alannah McIntyre, Aoife Murray, Laurann Rabbitt, Michelle Read, Paul Tylak
Music
- Music
- Jacob Groth
Editing
Crew
- Script Editor
- Linda O'Sullivan
- Assistant Script Editor
- Grainne McNamara
- Executive Script Editor
- Linda O'Sullivan
- Character Supervisor
- Guilhem Charron
- Supervisor (Main Character Build)
- Henrik Thomas
- Character Modeling Supervisor
- Henrik Thomas
- Character Artists
- Guillaume Barlier, Jesper Colding, Olivier Coulon, Gwenael Glon, Thomas Nøhr, Ludovic Ramiére, Gael Sabourin
- Character Designers
- Thierry Beltrami, Nils Robin
- Prop Designers
- Julien Goff, Nils Robin
- Sets and Props Supervisor
- Christine Gatto
- Sets and Props
- Paul-Henri Bonnafoux, Jerome Cointre, Nicolas Daegelen, Caroline German, Anthony Malagutti, Frederic Medioni, Ludovic Ramiére, Cyril Vergne
- Prop Artists
- Caroline German, Cyril Vergne, Paul-Henri Bonnafoux
- Layout Blocking
- Alban Lelievre, Lydie Nguyen, Jean-Paul Tétu
- Layout Artists
- Pierre Collet-Derby, Lydie Nguyen, Jean-Paul Tétu
- Storyboard
- Vincent Chassé, Philippe Prunét, Gwenaelle Sasaki, Augusto Zanovello
- Animators
- Alexandre Baduel, Marc Beaujeau, Francois Cao, Pierre Collet-Derby, Nicolas Dabos, Guillame Dhont, Julien Hassenforder, Jean Hemez, Alexandre Henri, Bernard Lacroix, Jean-Charles Laurent, Alban Lelievre, Vincent Lemaire, Patricia Magniez, Vincent Odic, Marco Pacifici, Katia Paliotti, Philippe Penaud, Matthieu Razungles, Claude Ricros, Gael Sabourin, Fabrice Senia, Frederic Vico
- Animation Producers
- Jacquemin Piel, Frederic Thonet
- Head of Animation
- Ludovic Savonnière
- Animation Coordinator
- Caroline Germain
- Senior Animator
- Jean Hemez
- Animation Trainees
- Sophie Adida, Audrey Boris, Thomas Enjalbert, Emmanuel Garcia, Renaud Mégange
- Software Engineer (Research and Development)
- Stan Walbert
- Compositors
- Alain Bignet, Philippe Huberdeau
- Heads of Production
- Delphine Blaineau, Lise Ann Mangino, Eric Sinson
- Heads of Production (Duran Animation Studio)
- Delphine Blaineau, Fanny Le Moal
- Editors
- Virgil Kastrup, Per Risager, Kaspar Astrup Schröder, Martin Wichmann
- Commissioning Editor
- Lotte Lindegaard
- On-Line Editor
- Neil McLauchlan
- Music
- Jacob Groth
- Sound Designers
- Colm Daly, Keith O'Gairbhin
- Sound Mixers
- Garret Farrell, Philip Murphy
- Sound Recordists
- Colm Daly, Keith O'Gairbhin
- Sound Re-Recording Mixers
- Garret Farrell, Philip Murphy
- Set Supervisors (3D)
- Sten Mesterton, Uwe Saegner
- Set Supervisors
- Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen, Sten Mesterton, Uwe Saegner
- 3D Designer
- Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen
- Lighting Supervisor
- Laurent Masson, Laurent Masson
- Technical Supervisor (3D)
- Laurent Masson
- Head of Research and Development
- Farchad Bidgolirad
- Software Engineers (Research and Development)
- Julien Cohen Bengio, Alex Bernardi
- Script Coordinator
- Shanti Bourse
- Produciton Coordinators
- Brice Colinet, Fabienne Lievant, Lorraine Morgan, Anne Sergent
- Production Assistants
- Niamh Barry, Thibaut Ruby, Paulina Sundén
- Financial and Legal Consultants
- Malene Ehlers, Anne Jørgensen, Charlotte Laurendeau, Catherine Vernon
- Color Research
- Florian Guzek, Miguel Larzillière
- Location Design
- Max Braslavsky
- Assistants to Producers
- Caroline Blin, Gaby Froese
- Financial Managers
- Susanne Boas, Anne Jones, Laurence Richard, Lone Sloth
- Translators
- Fabienne Gondrand, Sandrine Vandendriessche
- Production Accountants
- Veronique Corda, Catherine McGuigan, Christine Rousée
- Legal and Business Affairs
- Brigitte Segal
- R&D Engineer
- Thomas Capelle
- Associates (Disney Television France)
- Malika Abdellaoui, Julien Borde, Jean-Baptiste Lamotte
- Associates (M6 Metropole Television)
- Natalie Altmann, Laurence Bégeot, Gilles Romele
- Business Executive (The Irish Film Board)
- Linda McEvoy
- Representative (ARD/Degeto/WDR)
- Wolfgang Wegmann
- Representative (TV2 Danmark)
- Lisbeth Mathiesen
Production notes
We are all familiar with Hans Christian Andersen's tale of the ugly duckling who became a swan...
But what a lot of people don't know is that, along the way, the same duckling was adopted by Ratso, a city rat hiding out in a duckyard full of farm animals.
It gives us great pleasure to be able to bring these two comical characters to the screen. It's what Hans Christian Andersen would have wanted - honestly.
A spin-off of the 2006 feature film "Den Grimme 'lling Oog Mig.""
Budgeted at an estimated 8 million euros.
But what a lot of people don't know is that, along the way, the same duckling was adopted by Ratso, a city rat hiding out in a duckyard full of farm animals.
It gives us great pleasure to be able to bring these two comical characters to the screen. It's what Hans Christian Andersen would have wanted - honestly.
A spin-off of the 2006 feature film "Den Grimme 'lling Oog Mig.""
Budgeted at an estimated 8 million euros.
Awards
Nominee, Irish Film and Television Award, Best Children's/Youth Programme, 2007; Nominee, Irish Film and Television Award, Best Animation, 2008