AlissaDirected by Didier Goldschmidt
Produced by Lazennec 3
Genres : Fiction - Runtime : 1 h 35 min
French release : 29/07/1998
Production year : 1998
DirectorActorsSynopsisLuc Kaufman, a hapless young man in his thirties, is inadvertently drawn into the murder of two police officers when he breaks into his father’s house. Manipulated by Alissa, a beautiful and mysterious Lithuanian, Luc finds himself mixed up in a vendetta between old rivals from behind the Iron Curtain. Luc’s father and a Russian ex-dissident turned politician are bonded by the secret of what they both know about a murder. Alissa, driven by vengeance and Luc, just for the fun of it while he’s falling in love, will use lies of their own to uncover the truth. AboutThis film is about paternal relationships, even if it wasn’t deliberate on my part. Luc’s father, Kaufmann, is a publisher, and sees everything in terms of culture and the written word. In his world, everything is decoded in terms of intelligent phrases and cultured allusions, which means avoiding directly expressing the main thing. And that leads to a lack of simple gestures, an absence of tenderness and true caring. There’s a great sentence in Bernard Frank’s novel, “Les Rats.” When his hero goes swimming with a girl on the Riviera, he comments, “I had the feeling I’d read about this swim.” That’s exactly it: the trap in which everything has already been experienced, everything is déjà-vu, there’s no authentic life. Luc’s father has this very cynical relationship to life that Luc strongly and instinctively rejects. (Didier Goldschmidt) Production and distributionAssociate production company : Lazennec 3
Co-production : Studiocanal
Film export/Foreign Sales : Studiocanal
French distribution : Mars Distribution
Full creditsExecutive Producer : Alain Rocca
Screenwriters : Didier Goldschmidt, Christian Sonderegger, Jérôme Tonnerre
Director of Photography : Jeanne Lapoirie
Sound Recordist : Didier Saïn
Press Attachés (film) : Agnès Chabot, François Hassan Guerrar
Editor : Benjamin Favreul
Production Designer : Jimena Estève
Music Composer : Carolin Petit
Costume Designer : Anne Schott
Make-up Artist : Nathalie Tissier
Still Photographer : Guy Ferrandis
Technical detailsFeature film
Genres : Fiction
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French
Production year : 1998
French release : 29/07/1998
Runtime : 1 h 35 min
Current status : Released
Visa number : 88.262
Visa issue date : 05/12/1997
Approval : Yes
Production formats :
35mm
Screening format :
35mm
Color type : Color
Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
Official website : www.lazennec.com/alissa
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