Babel is a fantasy adventure film, directed by Gérard Pullicino and released in 1999.[1]

Babel
Directed byGérard Pullicino
Written byVincent Lambert
Gérard Pullicino
Serge Richez
Produced byGeorges Benayoun
StarringMitchell David Rothpan
Maria de Medeiros
Michel Jonasz
Tchéky Karyo
CinematographyÉric Cayla
Edited byLaurent Rouan
Music byGérard Pullicino
Ken Worth
Production
companies
Allegro Films
IMA Productions
Distributed byAFMD
Motion International
Release date
  • April 7, 1999 (1999-04-07)
Running time
95 minutes
CountriesCanada
France
LanguageFrench

The film centres on the Babels, a strange race of trolls who once lived alongside human beings but have been secretly living underground since the Tower of Babel; one day, their map to the secret location of the tower is stolen by a dog who takes it to his human master Patrick Carat (Michel Jonasz), forcing the Babels to team up with Patrick's son David (Mitchell David Rothpan) and David's schoolteacher Alice (Maria de Medeiros) to recover the map before the evil Nemrod (Tchéky Karyo) can steal it to control the world.[2]

The cast also includes Bronwen Booth, Sheena Larkin, Garry Robbins, Maxim Roy, Mark Camacho, Nagui Fam, Maggie Castle, Dino Tosques, Frank Fontaine, Hassan Hamdani, Bruno Ledez, Claude Giroux, Christopher Heyerdahl, Al Vandecruys, Daniel Emilfork and Maurice Chevit in supporting roles.

Awards

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Éric Cayla received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Cinematography at the 2nd Jutra Awards in 2000.[3]

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