In a troubled African village, an unusual baby is born.In a troubled African village, an unusual baby is born.In a troubled African village, an unusual baby is born.
- Directors
- Michel Ocelot
- Raymond Burlet(in collaboration with)
- Writer
- Michel Ocelot(uncredited)
- Stars
- Doudou Gueye Thiaw(voice)
- Maimouna N'Diaye(voice)
- Awa Sene Sarr(voice)
Top credits
- Directors
- Michel Ocelot
- Raymond Burlet(in collaboration with)
- Writer
- Michel Ocelot(uncredited)
- Stars
- Doudou Gueye Thiaw(voice)
- Maimouna N'Diaye(voice)
- Awa Sene Sarr(voice)
- Awards
- 11 wins & 1 nomination
Maimouna N'Diaye
- La Mère
- (voice)
Awa Sene Sarr
- Karaba
- (voice)
- (as Awa Sène Sarr)
Robert Liensol
- Le Sage dans la montagne
- (voice)
- (as Robert Lionsol)
William Nadylam
- Kirikou jeune homme
- (voice)
- (as William Nadylam-Yotnda)
Sebastien Hebrant
- Kirikou jeune homme
- (voice)
- (as Sébastien Hébrant)
Thilombo Lubambu
- L'Oncle
- (voice)
- (as Tshilombo Lubambu)
Moustapha Diop
- Fétiche sur le toît
- (voice)
- (as Mouhamadou Moustapha Diop)
Isseu Niang
- La Femme maigre
- (voice)
Adjoua Barry
- La Fille moyenne
- (voice)
Abdoulaye Diop
- Le Vieillard
- (voice)
- (as Abdoulayé Diop Yama)
Tabata Ndiaye
- La Femme âgée
- (voice)
- (as Thiaba N'Diaye)
- Directors
- Michel Ocelot
- Raymond Burlet(in collaboration with)
- Writer
- Michel Ocelot(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirector Trademark: [Michel Ocelot] [silhouettes] In one scene Kirikou's mother is seen as a solid black silhouette backlit by fire; later in the film, Kirikou himself, for the entirety of the underground tunnel scenes, is rendered as a black silhouette with only the whites of his eyes and teeth showing.
- Quotes
Village Boy: [sees a beautiful tree standing on its own] Look at that tree! I've never seen anything like it.
Kirikou: Then don't go near it! It may be a trap from the sorceress.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Kirikou ja viidakon eläimet (2005)
Review
Featured review
No room for popcorn
I've always had this idea that popcorn and Coke were added to fill a void that most film storylines leave untouched. That such a void can filled at all, simply by bloating out stomachs with toasted corn and carbonated sugar water, is a subject that might well be worth entering into, another day. "Kirikou et la sorcière" has the spartan charm of so many stories and fables from Africa. It is as if the scarcity of food and water that illustrated in this story - as in so many like it - had, in turn, to be compensated by making the fable rich in wondrous colourful fantasy and highly nourishing in details that describe the frequently comical and pathetic side to human behaviour. The travesty I see is that, while this film is available in German, French and Spanish, puritans in countries like the US and the UK have, once again, determined that - in an effort at sparing depraved censors the discomfort of twitching at the sight of happily naked village kids and their semi naked mothers - my children shall not be allowed to learn about life in cultures other than their own, nor to hear lessons of great wisdom but may, instead, freely view animated violence and large doses of their own recycled high school yarns. Cannibalise cartoon & eat Pokemon!
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- jlm-6
- Aug 7, 2002
Details
Box office
- Budget
- €3,800,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $281,179
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