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story identification - Old animated film with bald blue people




  • What is it? An animated movie, full length (I think)

  • What it isn't: It's not La Planète sauvage/Fantastic planet and it's not Gandahar

  • What made it memorable: Animation was very trippy (at least in my memory) and main protagonist was a child with blue skin and bald head.

  • When and where did you see this film?: Late 80's, early 90's. I saw it in the cinema, so I guess it must be a full length film but in that time and in my country they could actually be showing several glued together episodes of a TV-series.

  • Other details:


I went to the cinema with a babysitter who knew French. She translated the title to me roughly as "Lue, child of Earth" (although I'm not sure that it was written in French, she didn't know English and could have read that in French by mistake). I was able to find this French TV-show called Blue, Child of the Earth/Bleu, l'enfant de la Terre which looks painfully close apart from it being a TV-series and not a full length movie. And not actually having any child, at least, not in the first episode.


I also think that the movie started with a child being born in the core of a planet.


Movie was dubbed in Russian and I sort of remember something that the main villain (?) was saying about "отбойные барабаны", some mixture of jack-hammer and musical drum.


I'm sorry for being so vague, I'm pretty sure that my memory is hazy and I'm mixing different things into one.




Answer



Bleu, l'Enfant de la Terre


Bleu, l'enfant de la Terre (Blue Child of the Earth) was a 1986 French animated series that ran for thirteen episodes. For cinema showing, the last 4 episodes were usually recut as one feature length movie.





Episode one here:






Similar to this sci fi question:


SF cartoon series with tall hairless humanoids wearing blue-gray armor


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