Impy's Island | |
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Directed by | Reinhard Klooss Holger Tappe |
Written by | Oliver Huzly Reinhard Klooss Max Kruse Sven Severin |
Based on | Urmel from the Ice Age by Max Kruse |
Produced by | Reinhard Klooss Holger Tappe |
Starring | Wigald Boning Anke Engelke Florian Halm Christoph Maria Herbst Kevin Iannotta Ulrike Johanssen Stefan Krause Oliver Pocher Domenic Redl Frank Schaff Klaus Sonnenschein Wolfgang Völz |
Music by | James Dooley |
Production companies | Bavaria Pictures Ambient Entertainment |
Distributed by | Falcom Media (Germany) Image Entertainment (United States) |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | Germany [1] |
Language | German |
Impy's Island, or Urmel from the Ice Age (German : Urmel aus dem Eis), is a 2006 German animated feature film based on the children's novel Urmel from the Ice Age by Max Kruse.
On a magical tropical island called Tikiwoo in the 1950s, a fun-loving group of misfit animals and people make a marvelous discovery: a baby Mamenchisaurus that was frozen since prehistoric times. Little Impy, as they call him, is loving his new family and ready to explore the strange new world. But when a king from a faraway country vows to capture the lovable baby Mamenchisaurus for his private collection, all the inhabitants of Impy's island must join together to save their new friend.
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For the American release, the voice talents are the following:
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