Malabar Princess

Malabar Princess
Film poster
Directed by	Gilles Legrand
Produced by	Frédéric Brillion
Written by	Gilles Legrand Philippe Vuaillat Marie-Aude Murail
Starring	Jacques Villeret Jules-Angelo Bigarnet Damien Jouillerot Michèle Laroque
Music by	René Aubry
Cinematography	Yves Angelo
Editing by	Judith Rivière Kawa Andrea Sedlácková
Release date(s)	2004
Running time	94 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Malabar Princess is a 2004 French film directed by Gilles Legrand. The film is about a young boy called Tom, who is sent to live with his grandfather in the French Alps after his mother disappeared during an excursion with her husband, Pierre, in the French Alps.^[1] He becomes friends with a boy called Benoît who is about his age, who while searching for Tom's mother come across for the remains of a plane that had crashed during the 1950s.

Plot

Tom, who is eight and dyslexic,^[1] has since been living near Mont Blanc with his maternal grandfather, a tram conductor.^[1] He becomes friends with a boy called Benoît who is about his age, and the two search for the remains of the Malabar Princess, an Air India plane that crashed in 1950.^[2]

Production

The film was shot on location at Mount Blanc in France. The Malabar Princess disaster actually occurred on 3 November 1950. It was Flight 245, a Lockheed Constellation aircraft of Air India, which had crashed at 4,700 meters above sea level.^[3] One of the engines of the wreckage was found on 15 September 1989 on the surface of the Glacier des Bossons, 1,900 m above sea level. A second engine was found on 22 September 2008 at 2,000 m above sea level on the same glacier.

Cast

• Jacques Villeret as Gaspard
• Michèle Laroque as Valentine
• Claude Brasseur as Robert
• Jules Angelo Bigarnet as Tom
• Clovis Cornillac as Pierre
• Damien Jouillerot as Benoît
• Urban Cancelier as Gaston
• Fabienne Chaudat as Odette
• George Claisse as Guardian of the Sanctuary
• Roland Marchisio as the jeweler
• Patrick Ligardes as Constable Petit
• Franck Adrien as Constable Chopper

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Malabar Princess". The Sydney Morning Herald. 10 December 2006. http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv-reviews/malabar-princess/2006/12/08/1165081133396.html. Retrieved 23 July 2009. 
2. ^ "Malabar Princess". Family Education. http://fun.familyeducation.com/movies/malabar-princess/49408. Retrieved 17 June 2009. 
3. ^ "The "Malabar Princess" Catastrophe". http://www.montblanc.to/uk/glacier/texte4.html. Retrieved 17 June 2009. 

External links

• Malabar Princess at the Internet Movie Database