Synopsis
After completing her PHD thesis on The Unknown Soldier, Adèle returns to her rural hometown to look after her grandfather. Like a modern-day Antigone, her grandfather is a rebellious writer who has secretly kept the remains of a soldier from World War I buried at the bottom of his garden.
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- Executive Producer : Utopie Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Next Film Distribution
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- Executive Producer : Karin Sitbon
- Screenwriters : Sarah Arnold, Adrian Smith
- Director of Photography : Tristan Tortuyaux
- Music Composers : Arden Day & Wysocky (Groupe), Benjamin Tixier
- Editor : Carlos Pinto
- Sound Recordist : Virgile Van Ginneken
- Costume designer : Cécile Choumiloff
- Associate producers : Helen Olive, Martin Bertier
- Sound Assistant : Renaud Triboulet
- Production manager : Héloïse Claudé
- Sound editors : Virgile Van Ginneken, Jan Vysocky
- Continuity supervisor : Virginie Cheval
- Sound Mixer : Virgile Van Ginneken
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Themes : Memories, History, Sculpture
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2014
- Runtime : 27 min 32 seconds
- Visa number : 138.229
- Visa issue date : 01/10/2014
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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