Port DjemaDirected by Éric Heumann
Produced by Paradis Films
Genres : Fiction - Runtime : 1 h 35 min
French release : 23/04/1997
Production year : 1996
DirectorActorsSynopsisWhen Pierre Feldman, a Paris surgeon, arrives in Port Djema, one of France's former flyspeck colonies in East Africa, he knows nothing about the brutal civil war between the Assad nomads and the ruling clan that is tearing the country apart. He has come to fulfil a promise that he made to Antoine Barrasse, a friend of his who was found murdered in Port Djema. Antoine was a doctor, like Pierre. He use to run a dispensary in the heart of rebel country, deep inside what is now a forbidden zone. AboutAfter years of relief work in the field, experiencing the world and its misery as a member of humanitarian organizations, there comes a time when you no longer know where you're heading. You skim over the misfortunes of others at top speed without even stopping. One cause replaces another, one form of suffering erases another. I felt the need to take a break. To step back and look. To use film to transmit some of the questions born of my contact with the world's wounds. Commitment? But to what extent? How do the people to whom we have given the role of victim see our way of playing the white-coated saviours? Why do we commit ourselves? The objectivity created by fiction was essential in my attempts to answer those questions. (Jacques Lebas, screenwriter) Production and distributionAssociate production company : Paradis Films
Co-production : Générale d'images (La), Orly Films
Foreign production company : Theo Angelopoulos Production, Classic S.R.L.
Film export/Foreign Sales : Roissy Films
French distribution : AFMD
Full creditsExecutive Producer : Marc Soustras
Screenwriters : Éric Heumann, Jacques Lebas
Director of Photography : Yorgos Arvanitis
Sound Recordists : François Waledisch, Christophe Winding, Claude Villand, Bernard Leroux
Sound Assistant : Colette Constantini
Press Attaché (film) : Eva Simonet
Editor : Isabelle Dedieu
Production Designers : Danka Semenowicz, Yves Bernard
Music Composer : Sanjay Mishra
Costume Designer : Valérie Delafosse
Sales Agent : Raphaël Berdugo
Still Photographer : Florence Dugowson
Technical detailsFeature film
Genres : Fiction
Production language : French
Nationality : Majority French (Italy, Greece, France)
Production year : 1996
French release : 23/04/1997
Runtime : 1 h 35 min
Current status : Released
Visa number : 86.597
Visa issue date : 24/02/1997
Approval : Yes
Production formats :
35mm
Screening format :
35mm
Color type : Color
Sound format : Dolby SRD
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