My Life as a Zucchini

Name: My Life as a Zucchini
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Released: 2016-09-22
Duration: 1 h 6 min
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud, Michel Vuillermoz, Raul Ribera

SOMETIMES WE CRY BECAUSE WE'RE HAPPY.

Ma vie de courgette (2016)

Timing: 1:6 (66 min)

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Actors and characters

Video for the film My Life as a Zucchini — My Life As A Courgette - Official Trailer (English)

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Release date

2016-09-22

Country

France, Switzerland

Production

France 3 Cinéma, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, SRG SSR, KNM, Gébéka Films, RTS, Rita Productions, Blue Spirit, Hélium Films

Genre

Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance

Budget

$6 500 000

Box office

$5 888 745

Website

http://www.mylifeasazucchini.com/

Director

Claude Barras

Actors

Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud, Michel Vuillermoz, Raul Ribera, Estelle Hennard, Elliot Sanchez, Lou Wick, Brigitte Rosset, Natacha Koutchoumov
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Michel Merkt, Max Karli, Marc Bonny, Armelle Glorennec, Pauline Gygax, Kateryna Merkt

Camera operator

David Toutevoix

Composer

Sophie Hunger

Artist

Cesar Diaz Melendez, Marcos Valín, Tim Allen

Audition

Marie-Eve Hildbrand

Editing

Valentin Rotelli
Whole Team (75)

Short description

After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.

What's left behind the scenes

60 different backgrounds and 54 puppets were created for the cartoon, each with three costumes.
The film is based on Gilles Paris’s novel “I Wanted to Kill the Sky. The Autobiography of Zucchini” (“Autobiographie d'une Courgette”), which deeply impressed Claude Barras.
According to the director, he deliberately chose a simplified animation style, as he believes that this manner of presentation will help viewers read emotions from the screen and identify with the characters.
The film is based on Gilles Paris's novel "I Wanted to Kill the Sky. The Autobiography of a Zucchini" ("Autobiographie d'une Courgette”), which greatly impressed Claude Barras.
According to Claude Barras, the work acquired the necessary rhythm and atmosphere due to the fact that the cartoon was created consistently, following the logic of the plot development.
The roles of the children were voiced by non-professional actors.