The Prince of the Pacific
Synopsis
1918. A French Navy ship steams into Fenua Poerava, alias Pearl Island, a lost paradise in the South Pacific.
The ships captain, Alfred de Morsac, a highly decorated WW1 veteran, is here to recruit and train a battalion of Oceanian Infantrymen.
Morsac is one of those intrepid heroes who “never say die,” the kind that could get by for a fortnight on one dead seagull. His courage and sense of duty sometimes border on recklessness and make him appear rather ridiculous. Landing on the island, he discovers a population of ancient warriors, the Hiva, living under the thumb of the vile, money-grabbing Commandant Lefebvre.
Morsac makes friends with Reia, the island’s child prince, who imagines him to be ‘Tefa’aora,’ he who, according to an old Tahitian legend, must free the people from their oppression.
Reia’s mother, Moeata, of French descent, has an entirely different take on things: for her, Morsac is nothing other than a ‘rotten European dog.’ Rapidly becoming an undesirable presence, Mo...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (6)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Ice 3
- Co-production : TF1 Films Production
- Foreign production company : Mate Production
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIO TF1 Distribution (ex-Newen Connect)
- French distribution : Fox France
Full credits (20)
- Executive Producers : Louis Becker, Thierry Lhermitte
- Screenwriters : Pierre Geller, Christian Biegalski, Laurent Chalumeau, Eric Collins, Thierry Lhermitte, Alain Corneau, Lucie Etxebarria
- Dialogue Writers : Laurent Chalumeau, Eric Collins, Alain Corneau
- Director of Photography : Patrick Blossier
- Music Composer : Deep Forest
- Assistant Director : Patrick Delabrière
- Editor : Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte
- Sound Recordist : Pierre Gamet
- Costume designers : Christine Guégan, Corinne Jorry
- Sound Assistant : Bernard Chaumeil
- Production Manager : Frédéric Blum
- Press Attaché (film) : Isabelle Sauvanon
- Sound Editor : Laurent Quaglio
- Assistant editor : Pauline Casalis
- Continuity supervisor : Carole Fèvre
- Production Designer : Jean-Marc Kerdelhué
- Stunt performers : Jean-Louis Airola, Patrick Medioni
- Casting : Pascale Béraud
- Still Photographer : Bertrand Laforet
- Unit Production Manager : Rémi Bergman
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Spain
- Original French-language productions : Yes
