Synopsis
It would have been a night like any other in the village of Beugneux if Mademoiselle Tronchet hadn’t discovered her brother Léon – notary and garden gnome collector – hanging from a beam in the attic. This might just be the beginning of a crime thriller…
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (11)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Nalina Films
- Co-productions : Fas, Ciné Valse
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distribution : Eurozoom
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : Frédéric Marboeuf
- Screenwriter : Jean-Louis Bouchaud
- Director of Photography : Pierre Fattori
- Editor : Paquita Nelson
- Sound Recordist : Jean-François Mabire
- Costume designer : Francine Pignal
- Press Attachés (film) : François Hassan Guerrar, Aude Thomas
- Production Designer : Dominique Boccarossa
- French distributor : Amel Lacombe
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1999
- French release : 06/10/1999
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 92.123
- Visa issue date : 01/02/1999
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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About
I wrote the screenplay five years ago, at a time when garden gnomes were a lot less popular. My parents’ neighbors had one that used to fish in a little cement pond. When it got stolen they bought another one and cemented it into the ground – a wonderfully "concrete" expression of how attached they were to it, I thought. As a tribute to them, I began writing a film about cement, but the subject soon changed to garden gnomes…
Jean-Louis Bouchaud – Director, excerpt from the press folder