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Jumbo/Toto, histoires d'un éléphant
Jumbo/Toto, histoires d'un éléphant

JUMBO/TOTO, HISTOIRES D'UN ÉLÉPHANT

Directed by Noëlle Pujol
France, 2016
Documentary

Synopsis

From Germany to Italy, from the United States to the Ile de France, Noëlle Pujol goes in search of traces of an African elephant with a double identity: Jumbo / Toto. Taken in German colonial dreams in 1910 under the name of Jumbo, the animal became famous in Rome as Toto under Italian fascism.

Synopsis

From Germany to Italy, from the United States to the Ile de France, Noëlle Pujol goes in search of traces of an African elephant with a double identity: Jumbo / Toto. Taken in German colonial dreams in 1910 under the name of Jumbo, the animal became famous in Rome as Toto under Italian fascism.