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The Child of the High Seas (1984)

The Child of the High Seas poster
Original title
L'Enfant de la haute-mer
Directed by
Patrick Deniau
Genre
animation
Country
France
Rated
U
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A sailor dreams of his young daughter who disappeared at sea. His longing is so strong that his ship passes through a floating city born from his imagination where the girl lives alone.

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What happens

L'Enfant de la haute mer est un court métrage d'animation français réalisé par Patrick Deniau en 1984. Un marin rêve de sa petite fille disparue à l'âge de douze ans, au cours d'un de ses voyages. Il y songe si intensément que son navire traverse la ville flottante, née de son imagination, que fait vivre solitaire cette « enfant de la haute mer ». Ce court-métrage est l'adaptation du conte éponyme L'Enfant de la haute mer (1928) de Jules Supervielle, repris en 1931 dans le recueil homonyme. Un film produit par aaa (Animation Art graphique Audiovisuel). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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