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An official selection at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, Toronto International Film Festival and Telluride Film Festival, THIS MAGNIFICENT CAKE! (CE MAGNIFIQUE GÂTEAU!) is an unforgettable work of stop-motion animation exploring the bitter milieu of Belgium-occupied Congo. In the late 19th century, keen to compete with other European imperial powers on the continent, King Leopold II of Belgium proclaimed, "I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake." The subsequent occupation of the Congo would come to attract a contingent of servants, merchants and miscellaneous bourgeois driven by everything from insatiable greed to existential fear. From the intimate stories of these characters -- many of whom pass through a luxury hotel in the middle of the jungle - emerges a greater narrative concerning the imperialist mentality. In a film by turns surreal, darkly comic and brutal, directors Marc James Roels and Emma de Swaef ultimately turn their critical gaze on the colonists themselves in a work of stunning, mysterious beauty.
Original Release
05/14/2018
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Jan Decleir | The King (voice) / The King |
Bruno Levie | Georges (voice) / Georges |
Paul Huvenne | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Gaston Motambo | Ota (voice) / Ota |
Alexander Rolies | Petit Phillipe (voice) / Petit Phillipe |
August Rolies | Petit Philippe / Petit Phillipe (voice) |
Jamal Tahri | Angry Neighbor (voice) / Angry Neighbor |
Michel Kossi | Brother Ota / Ota's Brother (voice) |
Wim Willaert | Van Molle (voice) / Van Molle |
Goua Robert Grovogui | The Lost Porter / Bolenge (voice) |
Directors
Marc James Roels, Emma De Swaef
Writers
Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jan Decleir | The King (voice) / The King |
Bruno Levie | Georges (voice) / Georges |
Paul Huvenne | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Gaston Motambo | Ota (voice) / Ota |
Alexander Rolies | Petit Phillipe (voice) / Petit Phillipe |
August Rolies | Petit Philippe / Petit Phillipe (voice) |
Jamal Tahri | Angry Neighbor (voice) / Angry Neighbor |
Michel Kossi | Brother Ota / Ota's Brother (voice) |
Wim Willaert | Van Molle (voice) / Van Molle |
Goua Robert Grovogui | The Lost Porter / Bolenge (voice) |
Anna Schoonbroodt | Louis' Mother (voice) / Louis' Mother |
Angelo Tijssens | Louis (voice) / Louis |
Sebastien Dewaele | Pierre (voice) / Pierre |
Dirk Rypens | Drunk Man on Boat (voice) / Drunk Man on Boat |
Walter Canipel | Extra voice |
Juan Maldonado | Extra voice |
Aziz Azam | Extra voice |
Sébastien Brodzic | Extra voice |
Michel Gallois | Extra voice |
Michèle Hublau | Extra voice |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Emma De Swaef | Producer |
Marc James Roels | Producer |
Mathieu Courtois | Producer |
Steven de Beul | Producer |
Jean-François Le Corre | Producer |
Peter Mansfelt | Producer |
Paul Mathot | Producer |
Ben Tesseur | Producer |
Koen Vermaanen | Producer |