Babel
Synopsis
For weeks, television, radio and newspapers have been announcing it: tonight will be no ordinary evening. For the last time before the year 2000, the moon will enter the earth's shadow for an extraordinary eclipse. Below ground, strange creatures advance according to a plan etched on parchment. The next morning, David's dog brings home an old document found in the street. David soon meets the strange Babels, and is caught up in a dizzying adventure. The countdown has already begun.
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Director (1)
Actors (5)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : IMA Productions
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, France 2 Cinéma, France 3 Cinéma
- Foreign production company : Allegro productions
- French distribution : AFMD
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producers : Georges Benayoun, Jacques Methe
- Screenwriters : Gérard Pullicino, Serge Richez, Vincent Lambert
- Director of Photography : Eric Cayla
- Music Composer : Gérard Pullicino
- Assistant Director : Alexandre Billon
- Editor : Laurent Rouan
- Sound recordists : Patrick Rousseau, Véronique Gabillaud, Joël Rangon
- Costume designer : Madeline Fontaine
- Line Producers : Elisabeth Deviosse, Charles Tible
- Press Attaché (film) : Michèle Abitbol-Lasry
- Sound Editor : Stéphane Brunclair
- Assistant editors : Julia Grégory, Isabelle Malenfant
- Continuity supervisor : Christine Ferrer
- Production Designer : Guy Lalande
- Still Photographer : Jan Thijs
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Fantasy
- Production language : English, French
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French
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"There's nothing more amazing than making people dream! Directing a fantasy film means going into a pure dream state. Re-reading the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1–9) raised some of my own questions about the world, because the vanity, human folly and mad scramble for power it recounts are still with us. You just have to look around—wars, pollution, media madness. That's why I invented the adventurous story of a little boy and his schoolteacher who encounter a strange and wonderful people, the Babels, who have come to protect the planet.
(Gérard Pullicino, Director)
