Synopsis
1787 - France is feeeling the advance tremors of an inevitable revolution. After killing one of the King's friends, Jean-François de la Plaine is exiled to the African coast as the governor of a minute colony, a sand-bar trading-post subjected to the whims of a river. Sensuality, violence and love are different there. He is thrown into the heart of commerce, slavery and tribal wars. As he travels deeper into 18th century Africa along the meandering and unruly river, Jean-François undergoes his own "revolution".
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (29)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Flach Film
- Co-productions : France 2 Cinéma, Les Films de la Saga
- Foreign production companies : Provobis GmbH, Cecchi Gori Group
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution, Impex Films
- French distribution : Pyramide Distribution
Full credits (19)
- Executive Producer : Jean-François Lepetit
- Assistant directors : Euric Allaire, Patrick Meunier, Bertrand Soupey
- Sound recordists : Dominique Levert, Éric Tisserand
- Screenwriter : Bernard Giraudeau
- Director of Photography : Jean-Marie Dreujou
- Sound assistants : Martin Boissau, Pierre Picq
- Assistant Operator : Renaud Chassaing
- Camera operators : Pascal Gennesseaux, Jean-Paul Meurisse
- Production Manager : Philippe Schwartz
- Press Attaché (film) : Bruno Barde
- Editor : Annick Baly
- Sound editor : Emmanuèle Labbé
- Assistant editor : Myriam Cadène
- Continuity supervisor : Lucile Christol-Bernard
- Production Designers : Yan Arlaud, Bertrand L'Herminier
- Music Composer : René-Marc Bini
- Costume designers : Marylin Fitoussi, Delphine Provent
- Sound Mixer : Williams Schmit
- Still Photographer : Alain Denis
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Italy, Germany)
- Production year : 1995
- French release : 03/04/1996
- Runtime : 1 h 55 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 85.381
- Visa issue date : 04/03/1996
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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News & awards
Selections (5)
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 1997
Best Original Music : René-Marc Bini
Best Cinematography : Jean-Marie Dreujou
Cairo - International Film Festival
Egypt, 1996
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About
"I wanted to film love shattered by historical events, an adventure movie set in the desert, along the rivers and coast of Senegambia. (...) It's a tale of slavery but above all one of tolerance and the acceptation of difference. In short, it's a rite of passage, the growing awareness of a deeply European, French, noble and elitist man who has been blinded by luxury and a life of ease. Sometimes ignorance can be as blameworthy as silence. (...) In the days of "our" French Revolution, the hero of this tale tries, in a new yet already exploited land, to draft "The Eulogy of Difference" that Albert Jacquard wouldn't write until two centuries later."
(Bernard Giraudeau)
