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Captain Ahab

This prequel to “Moby Dick,” that Herman Melville never wrote, is completely in tune with the playful spirit of the original novel. Five different narrators explore five different parts of Captain Ahab's life leading up to Starbuck's recollection of the adult Ahab's fatal obsession with the white whale.

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Sponsors:
Consulate General of France, San Francisco, TV5 Monde

Cast & Crew

Director: Philippe Ramos
Producer: Florence Borelly
Editor: Philippe Ramos
Screenwriter: Philippe Ramos based on the novel by Herman Melville
Cinematographer: Laurent Desmet
Awards: Locarno International Film Festival 2007 (Best Director, FIPRESCI Prize)

Music: Olivier Bombarda
Principal Cast: Denis Lavant, Virgil Leclaire, Dominique Blanc, Jacques Bonnaffé, Jean-François Stévenin
Filmography: Farewell Homeland(2003);

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Screenings

Uptown Cinema
May 30, 2008 7:00 PM
7:00 PM (Date has passed.)
SIFF Cinema
June 3, 2008 4:30 PM
4:30 PM (Date has passed.)