Captain Ahab
Synopsis
When Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father (Jean-Francois Stevenin) places his son in the care of his pious aunt Rose Mona Heftre). It is Rose who sparks the imagination of the young boy by teaching him to read the Bible, though when Ahab is reclaimed by his father a decade later the growing boy strives to become a hunter like his old man. Later, after Ahab warms to his father's lover Louise (Hande Kodja), the old man dies and the boy is sent back to his God-fearing aunt. Rejecting Rose and her abusive husband Henry (Philippe Katerine)'s unforginv brand of discipline and infuriated that his aunt confiscated the locket given to him by Louise, young Ahab boldly stages his own kidnapping as an ingenious escape plan.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (18)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Sésame Films
- Co-productions : Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Arte France Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : DFM Fiktion, Film i Väst
- Film exports/foreign sales : Wide
- French distribution : Dulac Distribution
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producer : Florence Borelly
- Screenwriter : Philippe Ramos
- Director of Photography : Laurent Desmet
- Music Composers : Pierre-Stéphane Meugé, Olivier Bombarda, Tonio Matias
- Editor : Philippe Ramos
- Sound Recordist : Philippe Grivel
- Costume designer : Marie-Laure Pinsard
- Foreign Producer : Olivier Guerpillon
- Author of original work : Herman Melville
- Production Manager : Fabrice Chevrollier
- Press Attaché (film) : Chloé Lorenzi
- Continuity supervisor : Charlotte Girard
- Production Designers : Philippe Ramos, Christophe Sartori, Erika Von Weissenberg
- Sound Mixer : Philippe Grivel
- Still Photographer : Olivier Brunet
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Adventure
- Coproducer countries : France, Sweden
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Sweden)
- Production year : 2007
- French release : 13/02/2008
- Runtime : 1 h 40 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 112.281
- Visa issue date : 19/11/2007
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
- Rating restrictions : None
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