Status : Completed
Country : France
Originale Title :Cessez-le-feu
Year : 2016
Language : French
Domestic Release : Le Pacte (April, 19th 2017)
Genre : Period drama
Runtime : 105 min
Status : Completed
Country : France
Originale Title :Cessez-le-feu
Year : 2016
Language : French
Domestic Release : Le Pacte (April, 19th 2017)
Genre : Period drama
Runtime : 105 min
Synopsis
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont (Romain Duris), traumatised by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the company of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War. From village to village, Georges uses Diofo's talents as a griot to recruit the villagers as labour for plantations in Ghana.
But his adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Paris where his brother Marcel (Grégory Gadebois), a war invalid, lives with their mother's. After the war in Europe, life went out without him.
Georges will desperately try to find his place, with the help of Hélène (Céline Sallette), a sign language teacher with whom he will have a tumultuous relationship, and his family, that he selfishly left behind.
He will finally attempt to heal their wounds, and his.
DIRECTOR
EMMANUEL COURCOL
CAST & CREW
DIRECTOR & SCREENWRITTER
Emmanuel Courcol (Our Desires & Welcome by Philippe Lioret)
CAST
Romain Duris (Mood Indigo, Chinese Puzzle, Heartbreaker, The Beat That My Heart Skipped)
Grégory Gadebois (The Last Hammer Blow, The Returned the TV series)
Céline Sallette (French Connection, House Of Tolerance, Rust & Bone, The Returned TV series)
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Tom Stern (American Sniper, Hunger Games, Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River)
COSTUME DESIGNER
Edith Vespirini (Amen, Louise Michel, Outside The Law)
Stéphane Rollot (2 Days in Paris, Outside the Law)
PRODUCERS
Polaris Film (The Smell Of Us, 2 Days in New York, 2 Days in Paris)
With the participation of Umedia and Fontana
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Marrakech IFF
Locarno