Babel

1999·95'

Letterboxd TMDB #37303

An elaborate fantasy tale intended for family audiences, Babel tells the story of the Babels, a strange breed of four-foot-tall creatures who once coexisted happily with human beings on planet Earth. However, when the humans built a huge tower to taunt God, he became angry and drove the Babels underground, while scattering the humans to the corners of the Earth and giving them different languages to keep them separate. Thousands of years later, three Babels are searching underground for the Babel Stone presented to them by God when they lose the map -- which is soon snapped up by a dog, who presents it to his master, an advertising man named Patrick. The Babels are desperate to recover the map, and they recruit Patrick's son David to help them find it (and the Babel Stone) before the evil Nemrod can steal the stone and claim its powers.

Cast

Mitchell David Rothpan David Carat

Maria de Medeiros Alice

Tchéky Karyo Nemrod

Michel Jonasz Patrick Carat

Bronwen Booth Mathilde

Sheena Larkin Mrs; Karlov

Garry Robbins Wasco

Maxim Roy Fanny Carat

Mark Camacho Bexter

Nagui M. Berny

Maggie Castle Amanda

Dino Tosques Sewer Worker