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LE HAVRE (Past Film)
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Release date : Sep 08, 2011
 
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Completed - FRENCH - Drama - 93 minutes

Log Line

The story of a shoeshiner, who tries to save a refugee child.

Year of production : 2011

Director(s) : Aki KAURISMÄKI
Writer(s) : Aki KAURISMÄKI
Cast : André WILMS, Kati OUTINEN, Blondin MIGUEL, Jean-Pierre DAROUSSIN, Elina SALO, Quoc-Dung NGUYEN, Evelyne DIDI, Pierre ÉTAIX, Jean-Pierre LÉAUD

Producer(s) : Aki KAURISMÄKI (Sputnik Oy), Fabienne VONIER (Pyramide International), Reinhard BRUNDIG (Pandora Film Produktion)

Synopsis

Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of the honourable, but not too profitable, of a shoe-shiner. He has buried his dreams of a literary breakthrough and lives happily within the triangle of his favourite bar, his work, and his wife Arletty, when fate suddenly throws in his path an underage immigrant refugee from the darkest Africa.
As Arletty at the same time gets seriously ill and is bedridden, Marcel once more has to rise against the cold wall of human indifference with his only weapon of innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of the people of his quartier, but against him stands the whole blind machinery of the Western constitutionally governed state, this time represented by the dragnet of the police, moment by moment drawing closer around the refugee boy.
It’s time for Marcel to polish his shoes and reveal his teeth.

Production

Country(ies) : FINLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY

AUSTRALIA SBS TELEVISION
AUSTRALIA SHARMILL FILMS
AUSTRIA STADTKINO FILMV
BULGARIA SOFIA INTERNATI
CANADA FILMS WE LIKE
CZECH REPU CINEMART
DENMARK CAMERA FILM A/S
ESTONIA MUST KASI / KIN
FINLAND FUTURE FILM OY/
FRANCE UNIVERSCINÉ
FRANCE UNIVERSCINÉ
FRANCE PYRAMIDE DISTRI
FRANCE PYRAMIDE INTERN
GERMANY Sep 08, 2011 PANDORA FILM PR
GERMANY PANDORA FILM GM
GREECE FEELGOOD ENTERT
GREECE AMA FILMS
HONG KONG EDKO FILMS LTD
HUNGARY CIRKO FILM KFT.
ITALY Nov 25, 2011 BIM DISTRIBUZIO
JAPAN EUROSPACE INC.
KOREA (Sou CHALLAN
MEXICO MANTARRAYA PROD
NORWAY ARTHAUS
POLAND GUTEK FILM LTD
SPAIN GOLEM DISTRIBUC
SWEDEN FOLKETS BIO
SWITZERLAN FILMCOOPI ZURIC
TAIWAN SWALLOW WINGS F
TURKEY FILMARTI FILM
UNITED KIN CURZON ARTIFICI
UNITED KIN CHANNEL FOUR TE
UNITED KIN CURZON FILM WOR
USA THE CRITERION C

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