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Kirikou and the Wild Beasts

Kirikou and the Wild Beasts

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 7, 2005

Runtime

1h 15m

Genres

Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy

User Score

63%

Original Title

Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages

Production Companies

Les Armateurs, Armada Films

Director

Michel Ocelot

Description

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 comprising 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).