Zarafa backdrop cover
Zarafa poster cover

Zarafa(2012)

01/25/2012 (FR)FamilyAnimation1h 18m
68%

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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.

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Movie Cast

Max Renaudin photo

Max Renaudin

Maki (voice)

Simon Abkarian photo

Simon Abkarian

Hassan (voice)

Vernon Dobtcheff photo

Vernon Dobtcheff

Le vieux sage (voice)

Roger Dumas photo

Roger Dumas

Charles X (voice)

Ronit Elkabetz photo

Ronit Elkabetz

Bouboulina (voice)

Mohamed Fellag photo

Mohamed Fellag

Mahmoud (voice)

Déborah François photo

Déborah François

Zarafa adulte (voice)

Thierry Frémont photo

Thierry Frémont

Moreno (voice)

Philippe Morier-Genoud photo

Philippe Morier-Genoud

Saint-Hilaire (voice)

Movie Stats

StatusReleased

Budget$10,750,000.00

Revenue$12,197,574.00

Production CompanyFrance 3 Cinéma

Original LanguageFrench

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