Director
Jannik Hastrup
85 years · Næstved, Denmark · 23 films
Jannik Hastrup is a Danish writer, director, producer, illustrator and animator. He is considered "Denmark's grand master of animation", as he is particularly well known for directing, animating and writing several animated films, occasionally with Flemming Quist Møller, including Benny's Bathtub, Dreaming of Paradise, Samson & Sally, War of the Birds, The Monkeys and the Secret Weapon, The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear and A Tale of Two Mozzies. He also directed, wrote and animated a number of shorts following Cirkeline the elf. He also founded his own animation studio called "Dansk Tegnefilm".
Best known for
Filmography 23
Cirkeline & the Invisible Artist
2025 · Self
Circleen, Coco and the Wild Rhinoceros
2018 · Director, Writer
Cykelmyggens far
2016 · Self
Mini and the Mozzies
2014 · Director
Cirkeline - De Go'e Gamle
2008 · Director
A Tale of Two Mozzies
2007 · Director
Cirkeline: Little Big Mouse
2004 · Director, Writer
The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear
2002 · Director
Circleen - Mice & Romance
2000 · Director
Circleen - City Mouse
1998 · Director
Hans Christian Andersen and the Long Shadow
1998 · Director
The Secret Weapon
1995 · Director
Song of the Sea
1993 · Director
War of the Birds
1990 · Director
Dreaming of Paradise
1987 · Director
Samson & Sally
1984 · Director, Writer
The Revolt of the Thralls
1979 · Director, Writer
The Thralls
1978 · Director, Writer
Palestine - Denmark, Same Struggle
1972 · Writer
Revolutionen i vandkanten
1971 · Actor
Benny's Bathtub
1971 · Director
On OVID
Good Morning
1968 · Cinematography
Concerto Erotica
1964 · Director, Writer