Safari: where was the film with Kad Merad shot?

TMC broadcasts, this Thursday, April 28 at 9 p.m., the film Safari, directed by Olivier Baroux and released in 2009 at the cinema. In this comedy, six French tourists, who have decided to discover the beauties of African flora and fauna, sign up for a safari organized by Richard Dacier, a guide, played by Kad Merad, who no longer feet in the African bush for over 30 years. On the occasion of the broadcast of this comedy, Télé Star invites you to dive behind the scenes of the shooting and to discover in particular where it took place.

The filming of Safari lasted eleven weeks. Most of the scenes were done in South Africa. The animal scenes were shot in the various parks located near Durban. As for the other scenes, they are set in the city of Cape Town and its surroundings. A week of filming also took place in Paris.

Safari: how was the filming with the animals?

In this comedy directed by Olivier Baroux, the actors regularly rub shoulders with animals. Kad Merad remembers it very well because he himself was bitten by a monkey during filming. “We finally managed to get what we wanted, but it was very complicated. The monkey, a vervet, only walks on food, and when he’s no longer hungry, it’s over, we can’t nothing more to ask of him. The dosage of food is therefore crucial. We still managed to get him to open a book. He’s a monkey, not an actor, he doesn’t care if the film works!”explained the director to our colleagues from Allociné.

Safari: how many cinema tickets for this film?

Released in April 2009, the film Safari was one of the successes of French cinema that year. In effect, nearly two million people went to dark rooms to discover the adventures of Kad Merad, Lionel Abelanski and Frédérique Bel.

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