The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.
Writing
The cat's monologues are S-tier blasphemous comedy.
Director
Antoine Delesvaux
François Morel
The cat (voice)
Hafsia Herzi
Zlabya, rabbi's daughter (voice)
Maurice Bénichou
Rabbi (voice)
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Malka of the lions (voice)
Daniel Cohen
Rabbi of the rabbi (voice)
François Damiens
Reporter (voice)
Mohamed Fellag
Sheik Mohammed Sfar (voice)
Mathieu Amalric
Prince (voice)
Éric Elmosnino
Professor Solimane (voice)
Marguerite Abouet
African (voice)
Wojciech Pszoniak
Vastenov (voice)
Alice Houri
Knidelette (voice)
Sava Lolov
Young Russian painter (voice)
Joann Sfar
Jew from the trunk (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sfar based the cat on his own pet and grew up in the Algerian Jewish community depicted—this is deeply personal storytelling disguised as farce.
The film adapts only the first volume; subsequent books send the cast to 1930s Paris and then the founding of Israel, which Sfar deliberately avoided to keep the colonial Algeria setting intact.
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