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Samson & Sally is a danois film of genre Animation directed by Jannik Hastrup released in USA on 9 november 1984 with Jesper Klein
Samson & Sally (1984)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 9 november 1984
Length 1h
Directed by Jannik Hastrup
OriginDanemark
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Children's films
Rating69%
Samson & Sally (a.k.a. Samson & Sally: The Song of the Whales) is a Danish feature-length animated film made in 1984. It was directed by Jannik Hastrup and based on the novel The Song of the Whales by Danish author Bent Haller. The story is darker than most animated films of the time.
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The film revolves around a young albino male Sperm whale named Samson who strongly believes the legendary tales of Moby Dick. The legends say that Moby Dick was a hero for all whales, and that he will someday return. He meets Sally, a young black-and-white female sperm whale who is orphaned after her pod is slaughtered by whalers. Samson's pod adopts Sally and she befriends Samson even though she does not believe in Moby Dick. Samson and Sally together survive certain dangers, such as killer whales, a massive oil slick, radiation poisoning, and whaling ships, which they refer to as "iron beasts." Eventually Samson and Sally fall in love with each other. Samson's mother is later killed by the whalers, greatly upsetting Samson. Samson decides to leave Sally and his pod to search for Moby Dick and convince him to try to save whales from whalers and the "iron beasts." After nearly dying several times, due to humans causing water pollution, Samson finds Moby Dick in the underwater ruins of Atlantis, only to find that Moby Dick is senile, and too old to even forage for himself. Disappointed, Samson leaves to try and find his pod. After days of searching, he gives up all hope of finding his pod, just before seeing them on the horizon. The film ends with a scene set decades later, with Samson and Sally as adult whales, caring for a single son, whom Samson saves from a killer whale.Actors
Jesper Klein
(Samson (voice))
Bodil Udsen
(La mère de Samson)
Poul Thomsen
(Samson's father (voice))
Berthe Qvistgaard
(Tortoise (voice))
Per Pallesen
(Sea gull (voice))
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