Zadok
Synopsis
At 40, Zadok doesn't even know what happiness is. He's a weird-looking character. God didn't serve him well. Zadok isn't too tall, with a hump on his back and a club-foot. All the same, nature has graced him with a lovely pair of blue eyes. Yet he is convinced that one day heaven will look kindly on him and allow him to experience love, the love of a woman of course. During a disastrous attempt at seduction, the villagers turn against Zadok and the priest who raised him is obliged to get rid of him. Zadok is then hurled into the unknown. His fate leads him into a series of increasingly burlesque adventures after which he is ready to challenge God himself.
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Actors (11)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Aria Films
- Co-productions : M6 Films, Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC)
- Foreign production company : Jacques Sandoz Film Production
- French distribution : Outsider Diffusion
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producers : Thierry Forte, Christine Beytout
- Screenwriter : Pierre-Henry Salfati
- Director of Photography : Jacques Assuerus
- Music Composer : Carolin Petit
- Assistant directors : Eric Lécuyer, Gilles Castera
- Editor : Chantal Pernecker
- Sound Recordist : Eric Vaucher
- Costume designer : Catherine Caldray
- Foreign Producer : Jacques Sandoz
- Sound Assistant : Jean Casanova
- Production Manager : Patrick Delauneux
- Press Attaché (film) : Annie Maurette
- Production Designer : Jean-Louis Poveda
- Sound Mixer : Éric Bonnard
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Switzerland
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France, Switzerland)
- Production year : 1994
- French release : 11/01/1995
- Runtime : 1 h 48 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 79.214
- Visa issue date : 08/11/1994
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
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"Zadok's tale is the eternal story of the tricks of love and tenderness (...). I wanted to give it a style somewhere between the circus and the comic strip, worthy of a child's fantasy world (...). We must remain children as much as possible. The thing that saves the human race is its innocence. Otherwise, how can one justify the permanent horror ? (...) It takes a great deal of strength to bear war, violence, injustice and disease (...). Everything is going worse but each new day we awake renewed with the idea, indeed the certainty, that things will get better, that we will find what we're looking for. Zadok is looking for love. And he believes that God will send him a woman who will love him (...). Zadok is a blend of Quasimodo, Pinocchio and all seven dwarves. He is also a character who has escaped from one of Brueghel's paintings, a refugee from the Flemish landscape and its hayricks with his cape (...)."
(Pierre-Henry Salfati)
