The Fifth Element
Synopsis
In the twenty-third century, the universe is threatened by evil. The only hope for mankind is the Fifth Element, who comes to Earth every five thousand years to protect the humans with four stones of the four elements: fire, water, Earth and air. A Mondoshawan spacecraft is bringing The Fifth Element back to Earth but it is destroyed by the evil Mangalores. However, a team of scientists use the DNA of the remains of the Fifth Element to rebuild the perfect being called Leeloo. She escapes from the laboratory and stumbles upon the taxi driver and former elite commando major Korben Dallas that helps her to escape from the police. Leeloo tells him that she must meet Father Vito Cornelius to accomplish her mission. Meanwhile, the Evil uses the greedy and cruel Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg and a team of mercenary Mangalores to retrieve the stones and avoid the protection of Leeloo. But the skilled Korben Dallas has fallen in love with Leeloo and decides to help her to retrieve the stones.
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Actors (11)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Gaumont
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (ex-Buena Vista International France)
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producer : Patrice Ledoux
- Adaptation : Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
- Director of Photography : Thierry Arbogast
- Music Composer : Éric Serra
- Assistant directors : Pascal Chaumeil, Franck Lebreton, Fred Garson
- Editor : Sylvie Landra
- Sound Recordist : Daniel Brisseau
- Costume designer : Jean-Paul Gaultier
- Foreign Producer : Iain Smith
- Producer : Patrice Ledoux
- Co-producer : Iain Smith
- Sound Assistant : Jean-Marie Blondel
- Assistant Operator : Sophie Bosquet
- Press Attaché (film) : Isabelle Sauvanon
- Assistant Editor : Yann Hervé
- Production Designer : Dan Weil
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Science fiction
- Production language : English
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1997
- French release : 07/05/1997
- Runtime : 2 h 6 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 90.813
- Visa issue date : 06/05/1997
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
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Lumiere Awards
France, 1998
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About
"I started writing a novel when I was 16. I didn't think about turning it into a movie until much later. In fact, it came to me little by little. "The Fifth Element" is certainly the movie of mine that is the furthest from reality : it was my wildest project, I wanted to make a film that was pure entertainment. But you never really work for a particular audience, you simply hope that an audience will be charmed, touched and moved, the size doesn't really matter. For "The last Battle", for example, there was a relatively low audience - but a very happy one; for "The Big Blue", the audience was much, much larger and people were just as happy; even if they weren't the same ones ! "The Fifth Element" is a real invitation to travel, to get away from it all. I believe you have to feel the need, to really want to, and that you have to be in that frame of mind to fully enjoy the film." (Luc Besson)
