Draft:Le Pharaon, le Sauvage et la Princesse

The Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess is a French-Belgian animated film directed by Michel Ocelot and released on October 19, 2022.

Synopsis
A storyteller tells three stories, one set in Ancient Egypt, one set in Auvergne in the Middle Ages, and a romantic story set in the 18th century Orient.

Tale 1: The Pharaoh
In the kingdom of Kush, a young king and a princess love each other, but are refused by the latter's mother and cannot marry. The queen believes that the king is not worthy of her daughter, who will marry the pharaoh of Egypt. The princess knows that the pharaoh will never marry her, and that her mother just doesn't want her to marry anyone.

She tells her lover to go up the Nile, to conquer Egypt to become pharaoh. Which he will do, with the help of the gods, and not by force, but thanks to his wisdom and his qualities as a good ruler. He returns to his native country, triumphant, and is able to marry his beloved.

Tale 2: The Beautiful Savage
In the Middle Ages, in Auvergne, the irascible lord of a castle constantly scolds his young son and sends him to play ball in the courtyard. The ball rolls to the dungeon where there is a mysterious prisoner. A dialogue begins between the two people. The prisoner talks to the young boy about his daughter, and convinces him to steal the jailer's key to give it to him. When he learns that the prisoner has escaped, the lord first wants to hang the jailer. But the young boy denounces himself. His father then orders servants to take him into the forest and kill him. The servants take him deep into the forest, but refuse to kill him and leave him in the forest.

Years later, a mysterious and handsome savage gives the lord a hard time, regularly stripping the provost of tax revenue to redistribute it to the peasants. Sending armed men to protect the provost changes nothing. The savage ends up leading the peasants to revolt. Soldiers and servants leave the castle and the lord finds himself alone. The castle is then attacked and easily conquered by a neighbor of the lord, who turns out to be the escaped prisoner. The savage is the son of the lord, and he will marry the daughter of the former prisoner.

Tale 3: The Princess of Roses and the Prince of Donuts
In the 18th century, in the Orient, a young prince must flee his palace and his country to escape assassins, and takes refuge in the neighboring town where he becomes a donut seller. Her delicious donuts are appreciated by everyone, the princess has them brought to her palace and finds them very much to her liking. She also finds the seller very attractive. His feelings being shared, the two lovers find a meeting place in an unoccupied and supposedly haunted part of the palace. But the sultan discovers them and has them thrown into a dungeon.

The prince has hidden a ladle in the dungeon, the handle of which allows them to lift a slab and escape. They decide to join a caravan to escape the city. Raiders attack the caravan, and their leader wants to make the princess his slave. She revolts, and she and the prince manage to disarm the looters. To thank them, the other members of the caravan give them beautiful clothes and jewelry and they finish the journey in a splendid palanquin.

Cast

 * Aïssa Maïga as the storyteller

“Pharaoh! »

 * Oscar Lesage as Tanouékamani
 * Claire de La Rüe du Can as Nasalsa
 * Didier Sandre as Amon
 * Bruno Paviot as Osiris
 * Thissa of Avila Bensalah as Isis
 * Isabelle Guiard as Sekhmet
 * Patrick Rocca as the general
 * Olivier Claverie as the vizier
 * Annie Mercier as the mother regent
 * Michel Elias as Khnoum and the high priest

“The Beautiful Savage”

 * Gaël Raës as the child
 * Oscar Lesage as Beau Sauvage
 * Patrick Rocca as the lord
 * Michel Elias as the old guard and the canon
 * Didier Sandre as the duke and the chamberlain
 * Carl Malapa as the young guard and the locksmith
 * Serge Bagdassarian as the jailer and the provost
 * Olivier Claverie as the steward
 * Bruno Paviot as the executioner

“The Princess of Roses and the Prince of Donuts”

 * Claire de la Rüe du Can as the Princess of Roses
 * Oscar Lesage as the Prince of Donuts
 * Bruno Paviot as the donut boss, the Moroccan chef and one of the caravanners
 * Annie Mercier as the first lady in waiting
 * Isabelle Guiard as the second lady in waiting, the first client and one of the caravanners
 * Thissa from Avila Bensalah as the third lady-in-waiting and the second client
 * Olivier Claverie as the sultan and the first passer-by
 * Michel Elias as the second passer-by and one of the caravanners
 * Serge Bagdassarian as the vizier and the merchant
 * Christophe Rossignon as the Turkish merchant
 * Nicolas Planchais as the leader of the looters

Critical
In France, the site Allociné offers an average of 3.7/5, after having identified 26 press reviews.

Box-office
For its first day of operation in France, The Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess is producing $43,138 entries$ (including $37,634$ in preview), for 335 copies. This result allows it to appear in second position at the box office for new releases, behind Black Adam ($93,068$) and ahead of Le Nouveau Toy ($36,082$). au bout d'une première semaine d'exploitation, le film réalise $108,409 entrées$, ce qui ne lui permet pas de figurer dans le top 10 du box-office français de la semaine

Selection

 * Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2022: preview