Wolfgang Urchs produced animations for the Mainzelmännchen since 1963 and was one of the pioneers of German animated film, directing and writing screenplays.
Wolfgang Urch's first feature-length animated film.
Wolfgang Urch's first privately financed animated film was Die Gartenzwerge (The Garden Gnomes) in 1962.
Wolfgang Urchs directed only 2 feature-length cartoons. Peterchens Mondfahrt and In der Arche ist der Wurm drin.
The film brought together many top German dubbing actors, such as Heinz Theo Branding (Taran und der Zauberkessel, Gremlins), Friedrich Schoenfelder (Cars, Oh, wie schön ist Panama), Helmut Krauss (Löwenzahn, John Sinclair), Edgar Ott (Benjamin Blümchen), Lutz Riedel (Jan Tanner, Firm German voice of Timothy Dalton), Santiago Ziesmer (Spongebob, Ferkel in Winnie Pooh), Simon Jäger (Firm German voice of Josh Hartnett and Matt Damon) or Arnold Marquis (Firm German voice of Bud Spencer)