''Spy Cat'' (german: Marnie's Welt),
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at ''Cineuropa'' – the best of European cinema. Retrieved 1 July 2021. also known by its German name ''Marnie's World'', is a 2018 German-Belgian
3D computer-animated
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adventure
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comedy film
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written and directed by brothers
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and
Wolfgang Lauenstein
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Biography
Lauenstein entered the School of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany in 1985. While enrolled at the school Lauenstein, to ...
. The film was loosely inspired by the German
fairy tale ''
Town Musicians of Bremen
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It tells the story of four aging domestic animals, w ...
''.
Release
''Spy Cat'' had its world premiere at the
Annecy International Animation Film Festival
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on 13 June 2018,
before being theatrically released in Portugal on 14 March 2019.
It was released in Germany on 18 April and Belgium on 1 May.
The film had a worldwide gross of $3,440,104,
but received generally negative reviews from critics.
For its British theatrical release, the film was slightly cut to remove a comical scene of a man urinating against another man accidentally when he's distracted in order to receive a
U rating from the
British Board of Film Classification
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. An uncut
PG classification was available.
Spy Cat
British Board of Film Classification
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– ''bbfc.co.uk''. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
In 2020, an English dubbed version of ''SpyCat'' was released with influencer Addison Rae
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, name = Addison Rae
, image = Addison Rae - Pandora 2021 3.jpg
, alt =
, caption = Rae in an interview for Pandora in 2021
, birth_name = Addison Rae Easterli ...
now voicing the character of Marnie.
References
External links
*
Spy Cat
' at filmportal.de
filmportal.de is an online database of information related to German film. It includes extensive information on films and filmmakers as well as articles on film issues. The website was released on occasion of the 54th Berlin International Film Fe ...
(in German)
*
3D animated films
2018 films
2018 3D films
2018 computer-animated films
2010s German animated films
2010s children's animated films
German 3D films
German animated films
Belgian animated films
Talking animals in fiction
2010s German films
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