Tintin and Captain Haddock are sent to guard Professor Calculus, who has invented a machine that can duplicate anything, and is staying in a village near the border of Syldavia and Borduria. However, an infamous and ruthless international criminal tries to lure Calculus and Tintin away by kidnapping two children, who live nearby, in order to get his clutches on the machine.
Practical Effects
Hand-drawn animation with weirdly detailed water effects for 1972.
Sound
Bianca Castafiore's opera voice weaponized as narrative device.
Director
Raymond Leblanc
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is the only feature-length Tintin film Hergé didn't directly write; he supervised and approved the story.
Syldavia and Bodouria return from 'King Ottokar's Sceptre,' continuing Hergé's fictional Balkan politics that somehow predicted Yugoslav tensions.
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