Capitaine Achab (2007)
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Cast
Denis Lavant, Virgil Leclaire, Dominique Blanc, Jacques Bonnaffé, Carlo Brandt, Philippe Katerine, Mona Heftre, Bernard Blancan, Hande Kodja, Guillaume Verdier, Nathalie Tetrel, Jean-François Stévenin, Denis Déon, Pierre Pellet, Ousmane Diallo
A boy reading the Bible in a remote hunting cabin grows up to command a whaling ship and encounter the dazzlingly white Moby Dick.
The story
In 1840, a boy reads the Bible in a hunting cabin lost in the woods. Through helping hands and blows received, Ahab grows up and takes possession of the oceans, eventually becoming a formidable whaling captain. He encounters Moby Dick, a whale dazzlingly white.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
1840. Who could ever have imagined that this young boy reading the Bible in a hunting cabin lost in the middle of the woods would one day become the captain of a whaling ship? No one. And yet, through helping hands and blows received, Ahab grows up and takes possession of the oceans. Now a formidable captain, he encounters a whale dazzlingly white: Moby Dick.
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