Corto Maltese: La cour secrète des Arcanes (2002)

Director:

Pascal Morelli

Writers:

Natalia Borodin (writer)
Hugo Pratt (graphic novel "Corto Sconta dette Arcana")

Release Date:

25 septiembre 2002 (France)

Genre:

Adventure | Animation | Drama | Romance

Plot:

At the end of 1918 while civil war is raging on in Russia, antagonism is slowly spreading to the East...

Plot Keywords:

Based On Graphic Novel | Based On Comic | Based On Comic Book | Blood | China

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Great hero, great flick

Cast

Richard Berry	...	Corto Maltese (voice)
Patrick Bouchitey	...	Raspoutine (voice)
Barbara Schulz	...	Changaï Li (voice)
Marie Trintignant	...	La Duchesse Marina Seminova (voice)
Frédéric van den Driessche	...	(voice)
Marc Chapiteau	...	(voice)
Maxime Leroux	...	(voice)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Hervé Bellon	...	(voice)
Philippe Cotten	...	(voice)
Emmanuel Curtil	...	(voice)
Patrice Dozier	...	(voice)
Jean-Michel Dupuis	...	(voice)
Sébastien Fromanger	...	(voice)
Bô Geste	...	(voice)
Christophe Guichet	...	(voice)
Fabrice Josso	...	(voice)
Nadja Nguyen	...	(voice)
Laure Sabardin	...	(voice)
François Siener	...	(voice)
Benjamin Van Meggelem	...	(voice)

También conocida como:

Corto Maltese en Sibérie (France) (working title)

Duración:

92 min

País:

France | Italy | Luxembourg

Idioma:

French

Color:

Color

Clasificación:

Finland:K-11 | France:U | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud)

Filming Locations:

Cuba

Company:

Canal+

Movie Connections:

Followed by Corto Maltese: La maison dorée de Samarkand (2004)

Great hero, great flick

Corto Maltese is one of the greatest graphical novel characters, or even literature characters for that matter, ever created. He's an adventurer, a pirate, a murderer and a lover, what ever suits his needs. Or then again he might spend entire story by just watching other people do all the adventuring. Then he just disappears just to turn out from somewhere else.

This particular story is from the more action end: Rasputin (Corto's insane Russian friend, who without any doubt is The Rasputin) and Corto are after Russian gold train, but then again so are lots of other people too. This gives a change to display some action scenes and conflicts between Corto and other parts of the story: Chinese, Russians, Mongols.

As for all Pratt's stories go, the story line is rather multi threaded, but it's hardly explained in any part, sometimes things just seem to happen and no one is explaining why. But then again there's no real need for that either, it's just the way these stories are told.

Animation is mostly well done, there are some parts which are little lacking, especially the human animation is little blocky in some places. All the special effects scenes are done with 3D animation, but they blend in with the painted backgrounds and characters rather seamlessly in most cases. Though there are some places where the difference is too visible.

This movie should be a treat for all Hugo Pratt fans, as I myself found it to have same mood that most of Pratt's comics have. I wouldn't mind having more of this.