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Zarafa
Release: Jan 25, 2012
Runtime: 78 min.

 Rating: 6.816 out of 10

Production Companies

  • France 3 Cinéma
  • Prima Linéa Productions
  • Chaocorp
  • Pathé
  • SCOPE Pictures

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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Cast


Max Renaudin
Max Renaudin
(as Maki (voice))
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Simon Abkarian
Simon Abkarian
(as Hassan (voice))
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Vernon Dobtcheff
Vernon Dobtcheff
(as Le vieux sage (voice))
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Roger Dumas
Roger Dumas
(as Charles X (voice))
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Ronit Elkabetz
Ronit Elkabetz
(as Bouboulina (voice))
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Mohamed Fellag
Mohamed Fellag
(as Mahmoud (voice))
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Déborah François
Déborah François
(as Zarafa adulte (voice))
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Thierry Frémont
Thierry Frémont
(as Moreno (voice))
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Philippe Morier-Genoud
Philippe Morier-Genoud
(as Saint-Hilaire (voice))
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Mostéfa Stiti
Mostéfa Stiti
(as Pacha)
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François-Xavier Demaison
François-Xavier Demaison
(as Malaterre (voice))
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