Story of a rabbi and his talking cat

Alliance Française Hyderabad is screening a French film ‘The Rabbi’s Cat’ (Le Chat du Rabbin) on February 26 at 7.00 p.m. The film by Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux was named Best Animated Film at the César Awards in the year 2012.

Based on the best-selling graphic novel by Joann Sfar, ‘The Rabbi's Cat’ tells the story of a rabbi and his talking cat. Algeria in the 1930s was an intersection of Jewish, Arab and French culture. A cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and miraculously gains the ability to speak. Along with the power of speech comes unparalleled sardonic wit, and the cat - and filmmaker Sfar - spare no group or individual as they skewer faith, tradition and authority in a provocative exploration and the search for truth. Rich with the colours, textures, flavours and music of Mediterranean Africa, the film embarks on a cross continent adventure from the tiled terraces, fountains, quays and cafes of colonial Algiers to Maghrebi tent camps, dusty trading outposts, and deep blue Saharan nights in search of a lost Ethiopian city.