This Magnificent Cake!

Dec 20, 2018

0h 45m

★ 6.7

Overview

In 1885, Africa is a succulent cake destined to be wildly divided and everyone wants a piece. A disturbed European king, a Pygmy working in a luxury hotel, a successful but lonely businessman, an enslaved porter, a young army deserter, a ghostly clarinetist. Some benefit from colonialism and greed. Others suffer racism and violence.

Genres

Animation

History

Comedy

Drama

Mystery

Production Companies

Beast Animation

Pedri Animation

Vivement lundi !

ARTE

CNC

Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds

Van Hecke Consult Comm. V.

Basok BVBA

Région Bretagne

PROCIREP

Netherlands Fund for Film

ANGOA

This Magnificent Cake! Trailers

Cast

The King (voice)

Jan Decleir

Georges (voice)

Bruno Levie

Narrator (voice)

Paul Huvenne

Ota (voice)

Gaston Motambo

Petit Phillipe (voice)

Alexander Rolies

Petit Phillipe (voice)

August Rolies

Angry Neighbor (voice)

Jamal Tahri

Ota's Brother (voice)

Michel Kossi

Van Molle (voice)

Wim Willaert

Bolenge (voice)

Goua Robert Grovogui

Louis' Mother (voice)

Anna Schoonbroodt

Louis (voice)

Angelo Tijssens

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.

7.6

The Secret Garden

Nov 30, 1987

When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.

6.7

Madeleine

Feb 16, 1950

Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.

7.8

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

Oct 13, 1939

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

5.9

A Miser Brothers' Christmas

Dec 13, 2008

Santa Claus and the mischievous brothers Heat Miser and Snow Miser are the targets of yuletide treachery when the North Wind tries to take Santa's place.

No Image Available

5.0

John Bull

Nov 22, 1917

Advertising for the 7th War Loan. Animation with intertitles in verse form, altering the expression of John Bull by the respective war bonds into a grimace.

6.8

White Material

Mar 24, 2010

In the midst of a volatile regime change in a Francophone African state, Maria Vial is fighting to sustain her family’s coffee plantation. With rebels and the army struggling for control, French peacekeeping forces move out, warning the remaining white residents that they’re on their own. But Maria refuses to be driven off the land, even as tragedy looms.

6.4

Spring

Jan 5, 1970

Paunvere parish school students Arno and Teele, Toots and Kiir, Tõnisson and Imelik experience feelings during one school winter, the traces of which they carry throughout their future lives - from true friendship and first love to self-discovery and clarifying life goals.

No Image Available

0.0

Nedosněné sny

Jan 1, 1989

No overview available.

6.1

A Thousand and One Nights

Nov 1, 1974

Five different exploits of Sinbad the sailor where he gets mixed up with the pretty daughters of exotic potentates, with powerful monsters that threaten his existence, and with all sorts of teeming jungle life.

9.0

Shaun the Sheep: One Giant Leap for Lambkind

Jun 8, 2010

Unidentified Farm Objects and paranormal sightings are the norm with Shaun the Sheep™ and his barnyard buddies Bitzer, Shirley, and Timmy, as they encounter more madcap mischief along with those Naughty Pigs next door. Big laughs are evident, as the creators of the Academy Award®-winning Wallace & Gromit™ are out to prove that sheepherding fun is universal.

5.7

O Quinze

Aug 16, 2004

No overview available.

6.6

Topsy-Turvy

Dec 15, 1999

For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press. In an effort to reconcile their creative differences and drawing inspiration from Japanese culture, they went on to create the hit opera "The Mikado", one of the duo's greatest successes.

5.1

Wrath of the Wind

Dec 4, 1970

A mute gunslinger takes on an oppressive landlord in 19th century Valencia and falls in love with a local woman.

7.0

Totems and Taboos

Dec 7, 2018

In Brussels, Belgium, the Royal Museum of Central Africa is undertaking a radical renovation, both physical and ethical, to show with sincerity, crudeness and open-mindedness the reality of the atrocities perpetrated against the inhabitants of the Belgian colonies in Africa, still haunted and traumatized by the ghost of King Leopold II of Belgium, a racist and genocidal tyrant.

No Image Available

0.0

The Idiots

Invalid Date

Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna travel to Europe for their honeymoon and end up staying in a health resort in Switzerland, only to return to Russia after four years. Fyedya can’t shake his roulette habit and keeps losing their money. His wife accepts this fate since he keeps assuring her that it’s all for inspiration and soon he shall write his to-be masterpiece, 'The Idiot'.

10.0

Radix

May 25, 2025

Two creatures meet on a tree. Their encounter goes deep down to the roots and beyond.

5.3

King Solomon's Mines

Jun 17, 1937

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.

6.6

David Copperfield

Jan 18, 1935

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.