Zarafa (2012)

01/25/2012 1h 18m

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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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Cast Ages at Release

Simon Abkarian

as Hassan (voice)

Born 03/05/1962, age

Vernon Dobtcheff

as Le vieux sage (voice)

Born 08/14/1934, age

Roger Dumas

as Charles X (voice)

Born 05/09/1932

Died 07/02/2016, age

Ronit Elkabetz

as Bouboulina (voice)

Born 11/27/1964

Died 04/19/2016, age

Mohamed Fellag

as Mahmoud (voice)

Born 03/31/1950, age

Déborah François

as Zarafa adulte (voice)

Born 05/24/1987, age

Thierry Frémont

as Moreno (voice)

Born 07/24/1962, age

François-Xavier Demaison

as Malaterre (voice)

Born 09/22/1973, age