LE HAVRE

Aki KAURISMAKI
  • 2011
  • In Competition
  • Feature Films

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

Directed by : Aki KAURISMAKI
Year of production: 2010
Country: Finland, France, Germany
Duration: 93 minutes

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  • ZDF ARTE Germany

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  • PANDORA FILM Germany

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  • PYRAMIDE PRODUCTIONS France

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  • ARTE FRANCE France

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