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Synopsis
How life is strange ! Place Alexandrie, in the heart of the mainly Jewish Sentier, the rag-trade district of Paris, here, Alain Berrebi is enjoying a happy and prosperous existence in the company of his family in his ready-to-wear boutique XL. Until the day an old Auvergnat dies in the back-of-beyonds of the Cantal and suddenly his life becomes a nightmare. Everyone seems to want to drive poor Berrebi off his rocker, Arlette, his fiancée, the father David Stern, the cousin Nathan. Even the chinese... Sheer hell ! But when you touch rock-bottom, the only way is up. You get burnt, but you emerge with a thirst for life and dreams which become reality.
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Director (1)
Actors (26)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Légende
- Co-productions : Gaumont, DD Productions, Compagnie Cinématographique Prima, TF1 Films Production
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (ex-Buena Vista International France)
Full credits (22)
- Executive Producer : Alain Goldman
- Adaptation : Florence Quentin
- Screenwriter : Florence Quentin
- Director of Photography : Philippe Pavans De Cecatty
- Music Composer : Goran Bregovic
- Assistant directors : Pascal Guérin, Eric Fourniols
- Editor : Hugues Darmois (Hachdé)
- Sound Recordist : Vincent Tulli
- Costume designer : Édith Vesperini
- Co-producers : Nicolas Seydoux, Alain Poiré, Laurent Storch, Gérard Depardieu
- Sound assistants : Emmanuel Ughetto, Arthur Le Roux
- Camera Operator : Patrick De Ranter
- Production Manager : Jérôme Chalou
- Press Attaché (film) : Claude Davy
- Sound Editor : Dominique Vieillard
- Assistant editor : Brigitte Chanteloube
- Continuity supervisor : Sophie Thevenet-Becker
- Production Designers : Dominique André, Christian Gazio
- Stunt performer : Alain Guerillot
- Still Photographers : Roseline Casal-Serra, David Koskas
- Location manager : Christine De Jekel
- Production secretary : Vanessa Fourgeaud
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1997
- French release : 10/12/1997
- Runtime : 1 h 35 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 86.011
- Visa issue date : 19/11/1997
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby SR
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''My family still lives in Auvergne, and I started working with Agnès B. doing ready-to-wear. In fact, both communities have many things in common: the work ethic, the importance of the
family, of the mother, of mutual help. (...) And, even though Jews are reputed for hating the countryside, history saw fit to unite them with the Massif Central country-folk. During the war many Auvergnat people took in Jewish children.'' (Florence Quentin, Screenwriter - Extract from an article in the Figaro: 10/12/1997)
