Babel

Story

Synopsis

An elaborate fantasy tale intended for family audiences, Babel tells the story of the Babels, a strange breed of four-foot-tall creatures who once coexisted happily with human beings on planet Earth. However, when the humans built a huge tower to taunt God, he became angry and drove the Babels underground, while scattering the humans to the corners of the Earth and giving them different languages to keep them separate. Thousands of years later, three Babels are searching underground for the Babel Stone presented to them by God when they lose the map -- which is soon snapped up by a dog, who presents it to his master, an advertising man named Patrick. The Babels are desperate to recover the map, and they recruit Patrick's son David to help them find it (and the Babel Stone) before the evil Nemrod can steal the stone and claim its powers.

Director

Gérard Pullicino

Writers

Gérard Pullicino, Serge Richez, Vincent Lambert

Language

French

Country

Canada, France

Release date

1 January 1999

Budget

$20,000,000

Ensemble

Cast

• Mitchell David Rothpan

  David Carat

• 

  Maria de Medeiros

  Alice

• 

  Tchéky Karyo

  Nemrod

• 

  Michel Jonasz

  Patrick Carat

• 

  Bronwen Booth

  Mathilde

• 

  Sheena Larkin

  Mrs; Karlov

• Garry Robbins

  Wasco

• 

  Maxim Roy

  Fanny Carat

• 

  Mark Camacho

  Bexter

• 

  Nagui

  M. Berny

• 

  Maggie Castle

  Amanda

• 

  Dino Tosques

  Sewer Worker