Release Date

25 Jan, 2012

Runtime

01:18: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Zarafa

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Actors

Max Renaudin

Simon Abkarian

Vernon Dobtcheff

Roger Dumas

Ronit Elkabetz

Mohamed Fellag

Déborah François

Thierry Frémont

Philippe Morier-Genoud

Mostéfa Stiti

François-Xavier Demaison

Crew

Valérie Schermann

Rémi Bezançon

Jean-Christophe Lie

Alexander Abela

Rémi Bezançon

Christophe Jankovic

Mael Gourmelen

Olivier Bizet

Adeline Bonacchi

Sophie Reine

Laurent Perez del Mar

Peter Dodd

Yoshimichi Tamura

Eric Omond