The Elephant Master
Synopsis
When his mother dies, Martin, 12, leaves France for Africa to live with his father whom he doesn't know. The latter, head of a game reserve, welcomes him coldly. He seems more concerned by the unexplained absence of elephants from the reserve than by his son's arrival. With Fofana and Victor, his new friends, Martin discovers African life and partakes in a great adventure that leads him to a reconciliation with his father.
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Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Ciby 2000
- Co-productions : Emael Films, TF1 Films Production
- Foreign production company : El Deseo
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : Ciby Distribution
Full credits (18)
- Screenwriters : Patrick Grandperret, Saskia Cohen-Tanugi, Alain Artur
- Director of Photography : Pierre David
- Music Composers : Steve Shehan, Georges Rodi
- Assistant Director : Alain Artur
- Editor : Dominique Galliéni
- Sound recordists : Pascal Armant, Jeremy West
- Costume designer : Annie Touquet
- Author of original work : René Guillot
- Line Producers : Joël Phiri, Bassek Ba Kobhio
- Co-producer : Patrick Grandperret
- Production Manager : Phillip Kenny
- Press Attachés (film) : Dominique Segall, Myriam Bruguière
- Sound Editor : Olivier Ducastel
- Assistant editor : Sylvie Lenfant
- Continuity supervisor : Olivia Bruynoghe
- Production Designer : Nikos Meletopoulos
- Sound Mixer : Bruno Tarrière
- Still Photographers : Moune Jamet, Alexandre Degre, Jean-Marie Leroy
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Adventure
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Spain, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Spain, France)
- Production year : 1995
- French release : 20/12/1995
- Runtime : 1 h 35 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 86.884
- Visa issue date : 04/12/1995
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby
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"Black Africa has been exploited mercilessly to relinquish its secrets to the whims of the big screen. Today's African film festivals and directors have cast aside the clichés to give it a new identity. Patrick Grandperret tackles this with the sensibility of a white man in love with Africa and so makes it even more familiar to us. (...) He returns Africa to its open spaces, its contradictions, its mysteries, leaving the audience to discover its differences like a child. The sobriety of Jacques Dutronc is in tune with Patrick Grandperret's modesty : both men let Africa come to the fore."
(Sophie Chemineau - La tribune Desfossés)
