The Rabbi's Cat is adapted from volumes one, two, and five of Joann Sfar's popular comic-book series of the same name.
"An absorbing, nuanced, and vividly animated tale of adventure, ambivalent morality and talking animals."- Village Voice
THE RABBI'S CAT (Le Chat du Rabbin)
By Joann Sfar & Antoine Delesvaux
with the voices of Mathieu Amalric, François Damiens, Eric Elmosnino, Hafsia Herzi
2011 | Animation | UR | 1h29 | France | GKIDS
Algiers, 1920s. Rabbi Sfar has more than one problem. His beautiful daughter Zlabya is transforming into a teenager, and even worse, his parrot-killing cat has just started talking. The Rabbi’s life grows all the more complicated when a box arrives from Russia with a painter inside. Ultimately Rabbi Sfar ends up on a quest for a hidden tribe and its mythical city of origin in Africa.
Presented in partnership with the Columbia Maison Française
Film in French with English subtitles
FREE and open to the public
