Zarafa

Name: Zarafa
Genre: Family, Animation
Released: 2012
Duration: 1 h 18 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Max Renaudin, Simon Abkarian, Vernon Dobtcheff, Roger Dumas, Ronit Elkabetz

Movie 2012-01-25 1h 18m Family Animation CICFF Best of the Fest Award 1 CICFF Children's Jury Award for Best Animated Feature Film 1

★ 6.9 / 10 · 132 votes

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.

Status

Released

2012-01-25

Runtime

1h 18m

Box office

$12,197,574

Studios

France 3 Cinéma , Prima Linéa Productions , Chaocorp

Country

Belgium

Language