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.

6.814

78 min

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)

Director

Rémi Bezançon

Jean-Christophe Lie