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Zarafa
2012, Jan 25
1h 18m
Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savannah, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe – and an orphan, just like him – as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal as a gift to King Charles of France.
Directed by
Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie
Written by
Rémi Bezançon, Alexander Abela
François-Xavier Demaison
Malaterre (voice)
Thierry Frémont
Moreno (voice)
Déborah François
Zarafa adulte (voice)
Vernon Dobtcheff
Le vieux sage (voice)
Simon Abkarian
Hassan (voice)
Philippe Morier-Genoud
Saint-Hilaire (voice)
Mohamed Fellag
Mahmoud (voice)
Ronit Elkabetz
Bouboulina (voice)
Roger Dumas
Charles X (voice)
Mostéfa Stiti
Pacha
Max Renaudin
Maki (voice)
Sam Weng
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