Zarafa

Jan 25, 2012

1h 18m

★ 6.8

Overview

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.

Genres

Family

Animation

Production Companies

France 3 Cinéma

Prima Linéa Productions

Chaocorp

Pathé

SCOPE Pictures

Zarafa Trailers

Cast

Maki (voice)

Max Renaudin

Hassan (voice)

Simon Abkarian

Le vieux sage (voice)

Vernon Dobtcheff

Charles X (voice)

Roger Dumas

Bouboulina (voice)

Ronit Elkabetz

Mahmoud (voice)

Mohamed Fellag

Zarafa adulte (voice)

Déborah François

Moreno (voice)

Thierry Frémont

Saint-Hilaire (voice)

Philippe Morier-Genoud

Pacha

Mostéfa Stiti

Malaterre (voice)

François-Xavier Demaison

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