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Movie Age rating in France: U

Zarafa (2012)

Jan 25, 2012 · 1h 18m

6.9/10 TMDB user score
135 votes on TMDB

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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Top cast

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

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