The Seven Crystal Balls

Jul 20, 1992

0h 42m

★ 7.3

Overview

Tintin and his friends investigate when something ominous haunts seven archaeologists, just after their return from an ethnographic expedition to the Andes, where they have dug up the tomb of Inca Rascar Capac.

Genres

Animation

Mystery

TV Movie

Production Companies

Ellipsanime Productions

Nelvana

The Seven Crystal Balls Trailers

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Cast

Tintin (voice)

Thierry Wermuth

Le capitaine Haddock (voice)

Christian Pelissier

Le professeur Tournesol (voice)

Henri Labussière

Nestor (voice)

Michel Ruhl

Bianca Castafiore (voice)

Marie Vincent

Dupont (voice)

Yves Barsacq

Dupond (voice)

Jean-Pierre Moulin

Milou (voice)

Susan Roman

Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret. As Tintin is drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine suspects him of stealing a priceless treasure. Tintin and Snowy, with the help of salty, cantankerous Captain Haddock and bumbling detectives, Thompson and Thomson, travel half the world, one step ahead of their enemies, as Tintin endeavors to find the Unicorn, a sunken ship that may hold a vast fortune, but also an ancient curse.

6.7

Cigars of the Pharaoh

Nov 6, 1991

While on vacation in Egypt, Tintin encounters an eccentric archaeologist who believes to have found the whereabouts of Pharaoh Kih-Oskh's tomb. Tintin finds there a cigar marked with a strange emblem.

6.6

The Blue Lotus

Nov 20, 1991

Tintin is visited in India by a Chinese gentleman who brings him a message. Then, an unseen marksman throws a poisonous dart right into his neck. The only clue Tintin receives from the now mad messenger is that there are problems in Shanghai related to a man named Mitsuhirato.

6.7

The Broken Ear

Jan 13, 1992

When a South American fetish is stolen and then reappears the next morning, Tintin investigates.

7.3

The Secret of the Unicorn

Oct 16, 1991

Tintin buys an old model ship at a flea market as a gift for Captain Haddock, who tells him about the exploits of a famous ancestor related to it. Then, Tintin learns that it is not an ordinary model ship.

7.0

Red Rackham's Treasure

Oct 30, 1991

Tintin and Captain Haddock search for Red Rackham's treasure with the help of an eccentric but lovable professor.

6.9

Prisoners of the Sun

Aug 3, 1992

Tintin and Captain Haddock travel to Peru in search of an abducted friend.

6.6

Land of Black Gold

May 4, 1992

When cars start to explode, which can lead to a serious oil crisis, Tintin and his friends travel to the Middle East to get to the bottom of the problem.

7.4

Explorers on the Moon

Sep 14, 1992

Tintin and his friends travel to the Moon aboard the Syldavian nuclear powered rocket.

6.6

The Red Sea Sharks

Jul 6, 1992

Tintin and his friends travel to Khemed, a Middle East nation, to help its ruler, Emir Mohammed ben Kalish Ezab, who gets into trouble when Bab El Ehr, an arms smuggler and terrorist, rises and takes over.

7.1

Tintin in Tibet

Apr 6, 1992

Tintin and Captain Haddock travel to Tibet in search of an old friend who has disappeared after a plane crash.

7.0

Flight 714

May 18, 1992

Tintin and his friends get involved in an unexpected and weird adventure when they meet Laszlo Carreidas, an eccentric millionaire.

6.6

Tintin and the Picaros

Apr 20, 1992

Tintin falls into a dangerous trap after his friends are falsely arrested in a troubled South American country where a revolution is about to explode.

8.3

The Mystery of the Rascar Capac Mummy

Dec 14, 2019

Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has left its mark on many generations of readers. To draw it, the Belgian cartoonist was probably inspired by a mummy exhibited in the first pre-Columbian exhibition organized by the Brussels Cinquantenaire Museum in 1923. Two intrepid archaeologists embark on a fascinating journey to reconstruct the story of the mysterious mummy.

7.0

The Calculus Affair

Dec 16, 1991

Strange things are happening in the evening at the mansion. Glass things break without any apparent reason. The Professor, somewhat apathetic to the whole series of events, leaves the following day to attend a conference on nuclear physics in Geneva. Foreign powers get wind of the Professor's work and send their agents to investigate.

6.7

The Calculus Affair

Jan 1, 1964

Strange things are happening in the evening at the mansion: glass things break without any apparent reason. Professor Calculus, somewhat apathetic to the whole series of events, leaves the following day to attend a conference on nuclear physics in Geneva. Foreign powers get wind of his work and send their agents to investigate.

6.6

Tintin and the Temple of the Sun

Dec 13, 1969

When seven archaeologists find an ancient Inca temple, they become victims of an ancient curse. Back in Europe, one by one they fall into a deep sleep and only once a day, all at the same time, they wake up for a few minutes and experience hallucinations where the sinister living mummy of Rascar Capac appears.

6.2

Tintin and the Lake of Sharks

Dec 13, 1972

Tintin is 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 Bodouria. Rastapopoulous, 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.

6.0

Le Petit Vingtième : le siècle de Tintin

Jan 1, 1995

From the beginning, Hergé's work, Tintin's creator, was conditioned by the ideology of his publisher, the weekly child supplement of a Belgian Catholic newspaper. An exciting analysis of the political meaning of the adventures of Tintin.