Year: 1975
Runtime: 91 mins
Language: Hungarian
Directors: József Gémes, Bill Feigenbaum
Vivid colors, wild music and animation deliver a phantasmagorical family adventure. The Sultan of Zanzibar’s harbor is plagued by sharks, so he releases twelve hippos to keep them away. When the city stops feeding them, the starving hippos rampage. The king’s adviser, Aban‑Khan, kills them all except a small hippo named Hugo, who becomes the hero.
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