Summary
Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons. But he accidentally falls from the trees…
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- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 63GoodWatch 63
Letterboxd · 1 K ratings3.4/5
IMDb5.8
Running time
1 h 20 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 adventure movies, −23 min on the typical 103
typical 10380Half of all adventure movies run 93–120 min.
Reach
Streams in 5 countries, rent or buy in 19 more
Released
1999
June 2, 1999
27 years ago
Genres
AdventureAnimationFamilyLanguage
French
Original language
Made in
Hungary- France
- United Kingdom
Germany
13 of 13
Nadia FarèsGina (Voice)
Tara RömerKom (Voice)
Janine SouchonThe Governess (Voice)
Pierre ArditiLe Roi (Voice)
Michael LonsdaleMaître Flavius (Voice)
Yves BarsacqKorkonak (Voice)
Patrick PréjeanGorine (Voice)
Jean PiatSérignole (Voice)- LMLionel MeletMargad (Voice)
- ICIvana CoppolaIda (Voice)
Paul BargeNarrator (Voice)
Bruno ChoëlLudovic (Voice)
Laurence JeanneretKom's Mother (Voice)
Directing · 2
- Jean-François Laguionie Director, Screenplay, Writer, Storyboard, Character Technical Supervisor
- Henri Heidsieck Assistant Director, Animation Director
Writing · 3
- Norman Hudis Writer, Songs
- Italo Calvino Author
- Pénélope Paicheler Characters
Production · 6
- Patrick Moine Producer
- Steve Walsh Producer
- Gerd Hecker Producer
- Katia Besimensky Production Director
- Corine Marcel Production Director
- Philippe Alessandri Production Director
Editing · 4
- Soïzic Veillan Editor
- Ludovic Cassou Editor
- Yves Francon Editor
- Anke Schmidt Editor
Sound · 5
- Alexandre Desplat Original Music Composer
- Jean-Paul Loublier Sound Mixer
- Néstor Morales Songs
- Stéphane Peccoux Songs
- Nigel Holland Sound Effects
Art · 2
- Christian Arnau Decorator
- Zoltán Szilágyi Varga Art Direction
Visual Effects · 68
- Les Orton Animation
- Roger McIntosh Animation
- Anthony Power Animation
- Ronaldo Canfora Animation
- Bea Kis-Kery Animation
- Marianna Kerteszne Hajdu Animation
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