A Minute of Silence
Synopsis
Marek the Pole and Mimmo the Italian have been coal miners here in Lorraine, on the German border, since they were sixteen. Their routine after work scarcely varies: drink beer with their workmates, hang out in the striptease joints in Nasweiler, race their cars... In December 1995 they are both twenty-five. A lightning strike is called at the mine. As it gathers strength, so does the tension between Marek and Mimmo...
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Director (1)
Actors (12)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Film Oblige
- Foreign production companies : K2 Productions, Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion
- Film exports/foreign sales : Playtime
- French distribution : Pierre Grise Distribution
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producers : Frank Le Wita, Marc De Bayser
- Adaptation : Florent Emilio Siri, Yves Ulmann
- Screenwriter : Florent Emilio Siri
- Director of Photography : Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci
- Music Composer : Alexandre Desplat
- Assistant directors : Pierre Sénélas, Alexandre Billon
- Editor : Joëlle Dufour
- Sound recordists : Éric Tisserand, Daniel Ollivier
- Costume designer : Sophie Dwernicki
- Foreign Producer : Joachim Ortmanns
- Sound Assistant : Stéphane Vizet
- Press Attaché (film) : Marie-Christine Damiens
- Sound Editor : Germain Boulay
- Production Designer : Thomas Peckre
- Sound Mixer : Williams Schmit
- Still Photographer : Anne Fleischl
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Work
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Germany, Belgium, France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Germany, Belgium, France)
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 25/11/1998
- Runtime : 1 h 28 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 89.378
- Visa issue date : 10/06/1998
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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Selections (6)
Melbourne French Film Festival
Australia, 1999
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About
I feel close to Mimmo in many ways. We both come from Sardinian families and walk with our head in the stars. We both value honesty and loyalty in friendship. Compared with me, Mimmo is more naive. When he meets this kind of shady mobster, Jaeger, he lets himself be charmed and lured and manipulated. Jaeger represents “elsewhere”, “the unknown”, a way to escape from his life as a miner. He tries to make the break but quickly sees his mistake. His place is next to his friend, who has chosen to stand and fight. (Bruno Putzulu - “Le Figaro”, November 27th 1998)
