Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages

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Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages
Directed by Michel Ocelot
Bénédicte Galup
Produced by Didier Brunner
Written by Philippe Andrieux
Bénédicte Galup
Marie Locatelli
Michel Ocelot
Starring Pierre-Ndoffé Sarr
Awa Sene Sarr
Music by Manu Dibango et al.
Distributed by Gébéka Films
Release date(s) May 13, 2005 (Cannes Film Festival)
December 7, 2005 (Belgium, France)
Running time 75 minutes
Country France
Language French
Budget €4,810,000
Preceded by Kirikou and the Sorceress
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Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages (English: Kirikou and the Wild Beasts) is a 2005 French animated feature film. It premièred at the Cannes Film Festival on 13 May 2005 and, unlike it's predecessor, received only festival screenings in all English-speaking territories. It's first release on an English-subtitled DVD will be from KimStim (distributed by Kino International) on 29 July 2008.[1]

[edit] Synopsis

The film is a sub-story to Kirikou and the Sorceress rather than a straight sequel. The movie is set while Kirikou is still a child and Karaba is still a sorceress. Like Princes et princesses and Les Contes de la nuit, it is an anthology film comprised of several episodic stories, each of them describing Kirikou's interactions with a different animals. It is however unique among Michel Ocelot's films, not only in that it is co-directed by Bénédicte Galup (who has previously worked with him as an animator) but also for each of the stories being written by a different person (in all other cases, Ocelot has been the sole writer and director of his films).

[edit] Cast

  • Pierre-Ndoffé Sarr – Kirikou
  • Awa Sene Sarr – Karaba
  • Robert Liensol – Le Grand-père (The Grandfather)
  • Marie-Philomène Nga – La Mère (The Mother)
  • Emile Abossolo M'bo – L'Oncle (The Uncle)

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