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Les DOUZE TRAVAUX D'ASTÉRIX (Original title)The 12 TASKS OF ASTERIX (Alternative title)The TWELVE TASKS OF ASTÉRIX (Alternative title)Les 12 TRAVAUX D'ASTÉRIX (Help search title)
Date: 1975 (Release)

Country: France

Director: René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo

Synopsis: Cartoon. Gaul, 50 B.C. Informed that the inhabitants of a certain indomitable hamlet are divine, Julius Caesar dares their chief, Vital Statistix, to accept a challenge based on the twelve tasks of Hercules. The villagers elect Astérix, their bravest warrior, and Obélix, their strongest, to take up the challenge.

Genre:
Animation
Releases
Date: 1975not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 82 mins Length: 7433 Feet
Date: 1976Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundAspect ratio: 1.66:1Runtime: 78 mins 00 secs - Dialogue (dubbed): EnglishDistributor: Connoisseur

Credits (146)
Supervising director: Henri Gruel, Pierre Watrin, Production Company: Dargaud-Marina, Production Company: Productions René Goscinny, Production Company: Les Studios Idéfix, Producer: René Goscinny, Producer: Albert Uderzo, Producer: Georges Dargaud, Production Manager: Georges Dargaud, Production Co-ordinator: Gérard Pradal, Technical Supervisor: Jacques Leroux, Screenplay and adaptation: René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, Script Collaborator: Pierre Tchernia, Photography: Jacques Capo, Photography: Michel Gantier, Photography: Denis Gruel, Special Effects: Henri Gruel, Animator: Bernard Roso, Animator: Bob Maxfield, Animator: José Abel, Animator: Jean Müller, Animator: Patrick Cohen, Animator: Harold Whitaker, Animator: Vivian Miessen, Animator: John Perkins, Animator: David Unwin, Animator: Brian Larkin, Animator: Børge Ring, Animator: Chris Evans, Animator: Georges Grammat, Animator: John Halas, Animator: Janine Clerfeuille, Animator: Jean-Pierre Jacquet, Animator: Denis Boutin, Animator: Alberto Ruiz, Animator: Christiane Clerfeuille, Animator: Claude Monfort, Animator: Malcolm Bourne, Animator: Bob Clennell, Animator: Christian Davi, Animator: Patrick Deniau, Animator: Peter Glazier, Animator: Tessa Jones, Animator: Leszek Majtas, Animator: Ray Newman, Animator: Claude Morice, Animator: Anne-Marie Legascoin, Animator: Yordamlis Bourgeois, Animator: Mary Schwarcz Pinter, Animator: Pierrette Gherardini, Animator: Dominique Pot, Animator: Jean-Pierre Tardivel, Animator: Jacques Galan, Animator: Didier Gourdin, Animator: Jacques Dimier, Paint & Trace: Raymond Roso, Paint & Trace: Françoise Vannereau, Paint & Trace: Sylvie Baheau, Paint & Trace: Reynaud Bellot, Paint & Trace: Odile Besson, Paint & Trace: Pierre Biecher, Paint & Trace: Gisèle Bonnin, Paint & Trace: Lorette Boschet, Paint & Trace: Armelle Bouche, Paint & Trace: Nathalie Bouche, Paint & Trace: Sylvie Bouche, Paint & Trace: Danièle Bourlet, Paint & Trace: Nicole Bouvet, Paint & Trace: Simone Bruyères, Paint & Trace: Sylvie Chenal, Paint & Trace: Martine Colpaert, Paint & Trace: Michel Creuzot, Paint & Trace: Florence Cuvelier, Paint & Trace: Jean de Maximy, Paint & Trace: Hélène Deptula, Paint & Trace: Jeanine Desgranges, Paint & Trace: Sylvie Despard Day, Paint & Trace: Sylvie Dhiry, Paint & Trace: Catherine Douillet, Paint & Trace: Sylviane Georges, Paint & Trace: Françoise Gillot, Paint & Trace: Abigail Gorham, Paint & Trace: Dimitra Grammaticopoulos, Paint & Trace: Claude Gras, Paint & Trace: Geneviève Groen, Paint & Trace: Caroline Guiloineau, Paint & Trace: Henry Hiedsieck, Paint & Trace: Christiane Heurtebise, Paint & Trace: Michel Houy, Paint & Trace: Emmanuelle Iovino, Paint & Trace: Colette Jaquemot, Paint & Trace: Lysiane Jollivet, Paint & Trace: Patricia Jouhaud, Paint & Trace: Béatrice Krotoff, Paint & Trace: Alice Lebreton, Paint & Trace: Philippe Leclerc, Paint & Trace: Ghislaine Lhote, Paint & Trace: Françoise Louessard, Paint & Trace: Joseph Marquès, Paint & Trace: Françoise Marsan, Paint & Trace: Madeleine Marques, Paint & Trace: Anne Mary, Paint & Trace: Florence Masclet, Paint & Trace: Françoise Melis, Paint & Trace: Oliver Merlin, Paint & Trace: Nadège Monchera, Paint & Trace: Nicole Mouchet, Paint & Trace: Philippe Normand, Paint & Trace: Françoise Riche, Paint & Trace: Michèle Rodron, Paint & Trace: Jean-Paul Rossard, Paint & Trace: Louis Mary Rousseau, Paint & Trace: Michèle Roux, Paint & Trace: Corrine Sauquet, Paint & Trace: Nadine Schwartz, Paint & Trace: Catherine Signe, Paint & Trace: Martine Sliman, Paint & Trace: Thierry Suillaud, Paint & Trace: Jean Marc Thiebaut, Paint & Trace: Zaruchi Torun, Paint & Trace: Gisèle Trouillaud, Paint & Trace: Liliane Turco, Paint & Trace: Françoise Vausseur, Paint & Trace: Georges Vidalie, Paint & Trace: Jean-Christophe Villard, Paint & Trace: Hélène Vincent, Paint & Trace: Françoise Wallet, Paint & Trace: Christine Wilson, Paint & Trace: Josette Zagar, Trace supervisor: Francis Nielsen, Pierre Chabal, Editor: René Chaussy, Editor: Minouche Gauzins, Editor: Isabel Garcia De Herreros, Editor: Michèle Nény, Production Designer: Pierre Watrin, Production Designer: Pierre Leroy, Production Designer: Gérard Calvi, Music: Mickey Nicolas, Sound Recording: Jean Nény, English dubbed version: Matt McCarthy, English dubbed version produced: Jacques de Lane Lea, English dubbed version techn supervision: Cine-Lingual Sound Studios
Cast (41)
Lourdes de Oliviera, Pierre Tchernia, Roger Carel (voice of Astérix), Luiz Antonio Carraro (Samba dancer), Jacques Morel (voice of Obélix), Georges Atlas, Claude Bertrand, Caroline Cler, Micheline Dax, Claude Dasset, Gisèle Grimm, Gérard Hernandez, Jacques Hilling, Nicole Jonesco, Henri Labussière, Odette Laure, Bernard Lavalette, Roger Lumont, Jean Martinelli, Pascal Mazzoti, Mary Mongourdin, Henri Poirer, Lawrence Riesner, Stéphane Steeman, Jean Stout, Monique Thubert, Pierre Tornade, Henri Virlojeux, Nicole Vervil, Paul Bacon, George Baker, Sean Barrett, Ysanne Churchman, Christina Greatrex, Alexander John, Michael Kilgarriff, Barbara Mitchell, John Ringham, Geoffrey Russell, Paddy Turner, Genni Nevinson (voice (English dubbed version))