Samson is a young whale that doesn't have friends. He spends his time listening to his mother's stories about the legendary whale Moby Dick. Samson becomes fascinated about it and decides to go on a journey to find Moby Dick.
Writing
Moby Dick as bedtime story for traumatized cetacean children.
Score
Melancholic Danish soundtrack that refuses to comfort you.
Director
Jannik Hastrup
Jesper Klein
Samson (voice)
Helle Hertz
Sally (voice)
Per Pallesen
Sea gull (voice)
Bodil Udsen
Samson's mother (voice)
Poul Thomsen
Samson's father (voice)
Kirsten Peüliche
Dolphin (voice)
Berthe Qvistgaard
Tortoise (voice)
Claus Ryskjær
Baleen whale (voice)
Preben Neergaard
Moby Dick (voice)
Ole Ernst
Captain (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Denmark's 1980s animation scene was weirdly obsessed with ecological collapse; this was their mainstream children's entry.
The film treats Moby Dick as literal figure rather than metaphor, creating bizarre metafiction where Melville's fiction is historical fact for whales.
DK
