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Moomins on the Riviera

Moomins on the Riviera
Moomins on the Riviera poster.jpeg
The international poster
Directed by Xavier Picard
Produced by Hanna Hemilä
Written by Leslie Stewart
Annina Enckell
Hanna Hemilä
Xavier Picard
Beata Harju
Based on Moomin
by Tove Jansson
Lars Jansson
Starring
Music by Thomas Bonneau
Cinematography Xavier Picard
Edited by Thomas Belair
Rodolphe Ploquin
Production
company
Handle Productions
Pictak Cie
Moomin Characters
Distributed by Nordisk Film (Finland)
Gebeka Films (France)
Vertigo Films (United Kingdom)
Lionsgate Films (United States)
Release date
  • 10 October 2014 (2014-10-10) (Finland)
  • 4 February 2015 (2015-02-04) (France)
Running time
80 minutes
Country France
Finland
Language English
Finnish
Budget €3.6 million
(US$4 million)
Box office $1,4 million

Moomins on the Riviera is a 2014 Finnish-Frenchanimated family comedy film directed by Xavier Picard and produced by Hanna Hemilä, who is also co-director. The film is based on Moomin comic strips by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson.

The film is a co-production of Finnish Handle Productions and French Pictak Cie. Written by Leslie Stewart, Annina Enckell, Hanna Hemilä, Xavier Picard and Beata Harju, the English version of the film stars Russell Tovey as Moomin, Nathaniel Parker as Moominpappa and Tracy Ann Oberman as Moominmamma. The film is based on the Moomin Tove Jansson's original comic strip: Moomin on the Riviera and it is the first animated feature based on the comic strips.

In the film, the Moomins along with Snorkmaiden and Little My sail for the Riviera, where their unity is threatened. Snorkmaiden is dazzled by the attentions of the playboy Clark Tresco and Moominpappa befriends an aristocrat called Marquis Mongaga, while Moomin and Moominmamma decide to move to the beach in order to escape all the glamorous extravagance.Moomins on the Riviera was released theatrically on 10 October 2014 in Finland to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tove Jansson's birth. In the United Kingdom, the film made its premiere on 11 October 2014 at BFI London Film Festival and it had a wider theatrical release on 22 May 2015.


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