She was created by Hanne Hastrup in 1957 and 10 years later she was given life, when Hanne Hastrup wrote the scripts and Jannik Hastrup animated and produced 18 short films for DR TV.
He also directed, wrote and animated a number of shorts following Cirkeline the elf.
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While the main characters hide from the soldiers, a brief scene depicts the negativism of racism in the United States with real images of racial attacks before and during the Civil Rights Movement, following by an anti-Richard Nixon image set on the Statue of Liberty.
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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 Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear and A Tale of Two Mozzies.