Capitaine Achab (2007)
Release Year: 2007
Alternative Title: Kapitän Ahab, Captain Ahab, Kapten Ahab
Director: Philippe Ramos
Writer: Herman Melville, Philippe Ramos
Production & Genre
Producer: producer: Florence Borelly, Olivier Guerpillon
Companies: ARTE, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Film i Väst
Genre: film based on a novel, adventure
Budget: N/A
Awards & Similar
Awards:
Similar: N/A
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Story
When Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father places his son in the care of his pious aunt. 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, the old man dies and the boy is sent back to his God-fearing aunt. Rejecting Rose and her abusive husband Henry'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.
Summary
His father, his aunt, the priest Mulligan, his beloved Anna and a sailor from the Pequod who had worked with the famous Captain Ahab paint the portrait of this exceptional sailor who reigned over the seas as a formidable sailor.
