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Cirkeline (Eng: Circleen) is a Danish comic book character, created by Hanne Hastrup in 1957. The character is a little elf with spiky black hair, who wears a red dress with black dots and prefers walking barefoot.

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Between 1968 and 1971, the comic was adapted for a series of animated shorts, when Hanne Hastrup wrote the scripts and Jannik Hastrup animated and produced 19 short films for the Danish public TV station Danmarks Radio. The last of the short films, Flugten Fra Amerika (Escape from America) has an anti-American message that prevented it from being broadcast. [1] [2] No new Cirkeline films were released until 1998.

The first Cirkeline book was published in 1969, and in 1998, she took the leap to the big cinema screen in the first of 3 feature films. Cirkeline became a brand, which has grown stronger and stronger ever since and today there are 9 books, music CDs and a range of products from underwear to cups and plates.

Several of the film's songs, written by Hans-Henrik Ley, have become classics - e.g. "Bim, Bam, Busse" ("Mile, Male, Mole"), "Snemusen Knud" ("Knut the Snowmouse") and "Cirkeline har fødselsdag" ("Circleen's birthday").

The character has been loved by children for generations, and has her own app and a significant following on Facebook.

Films

Cirkeline appears in the following animated feature-length films:

Stamps

In 2002, Post Danmark (the Danish postal service) made four postage stamp featuring Danish comic book characters. The stamps featured Cirkeline, Valhalla, Rasmus Klump, and Jungledyret Hugo. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Forbudt Cirkelinefilm udgives". MediaWatch. JP/Politikens Hus A/S. 23 September 2009. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
  2. ↑ ""Flugten fra Amerika" 1971". Plaschke.dk. Archived from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Stenstrup, Brita (16 January 2002). "Klump og Cirkeline på mærkerne". Berlingske (in Danish). Retrieved 20 August 2015.


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