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The Red Turtle
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2016 feature-length animated film by Michaël Dudok de Wit
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7.4The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
Cast
- Tom Hudson as The Son as a Young Adult (voice)
- Baptiste Goy as The Son as a Child (voice)
- Axel Devillers as The Son as a Baby (voice)
- Barbara Beretta as The Mother (voice)
Themes
- coming of age
- survival
- loneliness
- crab
- raft
- sea turtle
- deserted island
- flood
- meditative
- calm
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Michaël Dudok de Wit
- Written by
- Michaël Dudok de Wit Pascale Ferran
- Produced by
- Toshio Suzuki Isao Takahata Vincent Maraval Pascal Caucheteux Grégoire Sorlat
- Edited by
- Céline Kélépikis
- Music by
- Laurent Perez del Mar
- Production companies
- Studio Ghibli Wild Bunch Prima Linea Productions Why Not Productions Arte France Cinéma CN4 Productions Belvision
- Distributed by
- Wild Bunch (France) Toho (Japan)
- Release dates
- 18 May 2016 ( 2016-05-18 ) ( Cannes ) 29 June 2016 ( 2016-06-29 ) (France) 17 September 2016 ( 2016-09-17 ) (Japan)
- Running time
- 80 minutes
- Countries
- Japan France
- Budget
- €10 million
- Box office
- $6.6 million
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Encyclopedic overview
The Red Turtle is a 2016 animated fantasy drama film directed by Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit who co-wrote the film with French screenwriter Pascale Ferran. The film is an international co-production between Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli and several French companies, including Wild Bunch and Belvision. The film, which has no dialogue, tells the story of a man who becomes shipwrecked on an uninhabited island where his attempts at escape are repeatedly thwarted by a red turtle.
The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 69th Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2016. The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 89th Academy Awards.
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