The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix facts for kids
Quick facts for kids The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix |
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| Directed by | Ivo Caprino |
| Produced by | Ivo Caprino |
| Written by | Kjell Aukrust Ivo Caprino Kjell Syversen Remo Caprino |
| Narrated by | Leif Juster |
| Starring | Frank Robert Kari Simonsen Toralv Maurstad Rolf Just Nilsen Harald Heide-Steen Jr. Helge Reiss Wenche Foss Per Theodor Haugen Henki Kolstad Leif Juster |
| Music by | Bent Fabricius-Bjerre |
| Cinematography | Charles Patey |
| Editing by | Ivo Caprino |
| Distributed by | Sandrew Metronome |
| Release date(s) | 28 August 1975 |
| Running time | 88 min |
| Country | Norway |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Money made | $6,439,069 |
The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (in Norwegian: Flåklypa Grand Prix) is a super popular Norwegian animated movie from 1975. It was made using a special technique called stop motion, where objects are moved tiny bits at a time and photographed. The film was directed by Ivo Caprino. It's based on fun characters created by the Norwegian writer and cartoonist Kjell Aukrust.
This movie is the most watched Norwegian film ever! Over 5.5 million tickets have been sold since it came out. That's more than the entire population of Norway today!
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The Story of the Grand Prix Race
The story takes place in a small village called Flåklypa, which means Pinchcliffe in English. Here, a clever inventor named Reodor Felgen (also known as Theodore Rimspoke) lives. He shares his home with two animal friends: Ludvig (Lambert), a hedgehog who is a bit nervous and gloomy, and Solan Gundersen (Sonny Duckworth), a happy and hopeful magpie.
Reodor usually fixes bicycles, but he loves to invent all sorts of strange and wonderful machines. One day, the three friends find out something shocking! Rudolf Blodstrupmoen (Rudolph Gore-Slimey), who used to work for Reodor, has stolen the design for a powerful race car engine. Now, Rudolf has become a world champion Formula One driver using Reodor's invention!
Solan, the optimistic magpie, manages to get money from a rich Arab oil sheikh named Ben Redic Fy Fazan (Abdul Ben Bonanza). The sheikh happens to be on vacation in Flåklypa. With this money, the trio decides to enter the big race themselves.
They build an enormous racing car called Il Tempo Gigante. This car is truly amazing! It has two incredibly huge engines that weigh 2.8 tonnes all by themselves. When they first started the engines, they were so powerful that a machine in Bergen, Norway, that measures earthquakes, showed a reading of 7.8 on the Richter! The car's body is made of shiny copper. It also has a spinning radar that becomes very useful during the race. Why? Because Rudolf Blodstrupmoen tries to cheat by creating smoke to block their view!
In the end, Reodor and his friends win the race, even with all of Rudolf's attempts to sabotage them. It's a thrilling adventure about friendship, invention, and fair play!
Other Movies from the Flåklypa World
The world of Flåklypa is so popular that more movies have been made about these characters and their adventures:
- Gurin with the Foxtail (1998)
- Solan og Ludvig - Jul i Flåklypa (2013)
- Solan og Ludvig: Herfra til Flåklypa (2015)
- Månelyst i Flåklypa (2018)
Inspired by the Movie
The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix has inspired many other cool things:
- In 2000, a computer game based on the movie was released. It was later made available for the Nintendo DS in 2010. This game was very popular in Norway, selling over 380,000 copies!
- A young boy named Christian von Koenigsegg was so inspired by the movie that he decided to create his own amazing cars. He went on to found Koenigsegg, a company famous for making incredibly fast supercars! The Koenigsegg CC was the first car he built.
- The Norwegian hip-hop group Multicyde used a sample from the movie's soundtrack in their 1999 song "Not for the Dough." The music video for the song even showed clips from the film!
See also
In Spanish: Flåklypa Grand Prix para niños
