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Zarafa
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.
Where to watch Zarafa
Zarafa is streaming in the US on Kanopy.
Cast
- Max Renaudin as Maki (voice)
- Simon Abkarian as Hassan (voice)
- Vernon Dobtcheff as Le vieux sage (voice)
- Roger Dumas as Charles X (voice)
- Ronit Elkabetz as Bouboulina (voice)
- Mohamed Fellag as Mahmoud (voice)
- Déborah François as Zarafa adulte (voice)
- Thierry Frémont as Moreno (voice)
- Philippe Morier-Genoud as Saint-Hilaire (voice)
- Mostéfa Stiti as Pacha
- François-Xavier Demaison as Malaterre (voice)
Details
- Director
- Rémi Bezançon and Jean-Christophe Lie
- Released
- January 25, 2012
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genres
- Family, Animation
- Studio
- France 3 Cinéma, Prima Linéa Productions and Chaocorp
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.9 / 10 from 134 votes
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