Jumbo/Toto, Stories of an Elephant (movie)
Jumbo/Toto, Histoires d'un Éléphant- User score: 10
- Production country: FR, DE
- Producer: Noëlle Pujol
- Production companies: Pickpocket Filmproduktion
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 7/15/2016
- Run time: 66 min.
Movie description
From Germany to Italy, the United States to Île-de-France, Jumbo/Toto, Stories About an Elephant shadows the itinerary of a single forgotten animal, an African elephant doubly-named Jumbo/Toto. Jumbo, as he was called on German colonial ships,at the Amerikakai port of Hamburg, and in Carl Hagenbeck's zoos; Toto, as he'd come to be known with great fame in fascist Italy. An urban investigation and an adventure film, a ballet of flora and fauna and pavement and sea, Jumbo/Toto, Stories About an Elephant is a modern epic of the joy and pain of the 20th century set in what still remains strange and unknown: the 21st century, and the solitude of telling a story.
