Jannik Hastrup

Jannik Hastrup (1941), screenwriter, director and producer, is considered a master of animated film. He has made more than 60 short animated films, of which Benny's Bathtub (Benny's Badekar, 1970) and Cirkeline (1967-1971) are film classics. Some of his feature films have also been hits with audiences and award-winning, e.g., War of the Birds (Fuglekrigen i Kanofleskoven, 1990) and The Boy Who Wanted to be a Bear (Drengen der ville gore det umulige, 2003).

Zlín Film Festival