The Havre
Synopsis
Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre. Here he pursues the honorable, but not so profitable, occupation of shoeshiner; he feels closer to people by being at their service. 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 illegal immigrant from Africa.
At the same time, Arletty also falls seriously ill and is hospitalized. Marcel must once more rise against the cold wall of human indifference, his innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of the people in his neighbourhood his only weapons. But the whole blind machinery of the Western state stands in his path, represented by the police, whose net is drawing closer and closer around the refugee boy.
It's time for Marcel to polish his shoes and bare his teeth.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (16)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Pyramide Productions
- Co-production : Arte France Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Sputnik oy, Pandora Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Match Factory
- French distribution : Pyramide Distribution
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producer : Fabienne Vonier
- Screenwriter : Aki Kaurismäki
- Director of Photography : Timo Salminen
- Assistant directors : Gilles Charmant, Lucas Loubaresse
- Editor : Timo Linnasalo
- Sound Recordist : Tero Malmberg
- Costume designer : Frédéric Cambier
- Foreign producers : Reinhard Brundig, Karl Baumgartner, Aki Kaurismäki
- Line Producers : Stéphane Parthenay, Hanna Hemilä
- Production managers : Rémi Pradinas, Mark Lwoff
- Press Attaché (film) : Eva Simonet
- Production Designer : Wouter Zoon
- Casting : Gilles Charmant
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French, Finnish
- Coproducer countries : Finland, France, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Minority French (Finland, France, Germany)
- Production year : 2010
- French release : 21/12/2011
- Runtime : 1 h 33 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 124.875
- Visa issue date : 16/11/2011
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
- Rating restrictions : None
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