| Malabar Princess | |
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| Directed by | Gilles Legrand |
| Produced by | Frédéric Brillion |
| Written by | Gilles Legrand Philippe Vuaillat Marie-Aude Murail |
| Starring | Jacques Villeret Jules-Angelo Bigarnet Damien Jouillerot Michèle Laroque |
| Music by | René Aubry |
| Cinematography | Yves Angelo |
| Editing by | Judith Rivière Kawa Andrea Sedlácková |
| Release date(s) | 2004 |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Malabar Princess is a 2004 French film directed by Gilles Legrand. The film is about a young boy called Tom, who is sent to live with his grandfather in the French Alps after his mother disappeared during an excursion with her husband, Pierre, in the French Alps.[1] He becomes friends with a boy called Benoît who is about his age, who while searching for Tom's mother come across for the remains of a plane that had crashed during the 1950s.
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Tom, who is eight and dyslexic,[1] has since been living near Mont Blanc with his maternal grandfather, a tram conductor.[1] He becomes friends with a boy called Benoît who is about his age, and the two search for the remains of the Malabar Princess, an Air India plane that crashed in 1950.[2]
The film was shot on location at Mount Blanc in France. The Malabar Princess disaster actually occurred on 3 November 1950. It was Flight 245, a Lockheed Constellation aircraft of Air India, which had crashed at 4,700 meters above sea level.[3] One of the engines of the wreckage was found on 15 September 1989 on the surface of the Glacier des Bossons, 1,900 m above sea level. A second engine was found on 22 September 2008 at 2,000 m above sea level on the same glacier.