LE HAVRE
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 mach
Year of production: 2010
Country: Finland, France, Germany
Duration: 93 minutes
Credits
- Aki KAURISMAKI Director
- Aki KAURISMAKI Screenplay
- Timo SALMINEN Cinematography
- Wouter ZOON Production Design
- Timo LINNASALO Editing
- Tero MALMBERG Sound
Casting
- André WILMS Marcel Marx
- Kati OUTINEN Arletty
- Jean Pierre DARROUSSIN Monet
- Blondin MIGUEL Idrissa
- Elina SALO Claire
- Evelyne DIDI Yvette
- Quoc Dung NGUYEN Chang
- LAIKA Laika
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Contacts
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Secondary Production
- ZDF ARTE Germany
Secondary Production
- PANDORA FILM Germany
Secondary Production
- PYRAMIDE PRODUCTIONS France
Secondary Production
- ARTE FRANCE France
French Press
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