Synopsis
Otto and Louna keep meeting each morning in the subway. He lives in a public housing appartment with his mother, is unemployed and hawks newspapers on the subway. She's a hairdresser and lives with an old lady always being hassled by the law. One day, fed up with their np-future prospects, they decide to ditch everything. Accompanied by Ali, a young, intellectual immigrant on the run, they steal a car and hit the road. A stork with an injured wing enters their lives, changing everything. It has come from Algeria, trying to find its family. They adopt it, baptize it Muhammed and arrange for take identity papers so it can pass the border into Germany where its parents are waiting.
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Director (1)
Actors (13)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Princes Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pyramide International
- French distribution : Mondo Films
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producer : Tony Gatlif
- Assistant directors : Thierry Emmanuel, Frédéric Goupil
- Sound Recordist : Marc Nouyrigat
- Screenwriter : Tony Gatlif
- Voice : Abel Jafri, Jean-Philippe Daguerre
- Directors of Photography : Claude Garnier, Éric Guichard
- Sound Assistant : Fabrice Servera
- Assistant Operator : Patrick Ghiringhelli
- Press Attaché (film) : Fabienne Ferreira-Barbosa
- Editor : Monique Dartonne
- Assistant editor : Véronique Bruque
- Production Designer : Brigitte Brassart
- Music Composer : Tony Gatlif
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Paul Loublier
- Narrator : Noël Simsolo
- Location Manager : Salem Brahimi
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1999
- French release : 17/11/1999
- Runtime : 1 h 20 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 93.897
- Visa issue date : 12/08/1998
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SR
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About
"Children Of The Stork" is a protest film, free of all constraints, be they linked to the story, production or technical methods... an open film. I felt free to chuck together, in a humourous way, everything that I loved and hated! When I didn't follow my usual narrative style it was like taking a break, giving myself a moment to breathe. I wanted to look at family, militancy and the right to be different from an absurd, mocking angle, and through humor, speak of serious things. Society treats us like babies and gets us to swallow any old rubbish! My stork speaks, like the cuddly toy in children's books! Frankly, who's mocking who? Therein lies protest!
Tony Gatlif - Director, excerpt from the press folder
