Karnaval
Synopsis
Dunkirk, northern France, February 1998. It's carnival season a month and a half of festivities, parades, and songs that turns the city upside down. After a violent argument with his father, Larbi has decided to flee the family gas station, to start a new life in the southern city of Marseille. Forced to spend one last night in Dunkirk, he shelters in a doorway where he is disturbed by Béa and Christian, a tipsy carnival couple returning from a ball. Larbi is charmed by Béa, and decides to stick around for a few days, to try his luck... only the carnival could make such an encounter possible.
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Actors (10)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : ADR Productions
- Co-productions : Arte France Cinéma, Compagnie Méditerranéenne de Cinéma (CMC) , Les Films du Bois Sacré
- Foreign production companies : RTBF - Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française, Thelma Film AG
- Film exports/foreign sales : mk2 films
- French distribution : mk2 films
Full credits (20)
- Executive Producers : Alain Rozanes, Pascal Verroust
- Screenwriters : Thomas Vincent, Maxime Sassier
- Director of Photography : Dominique Bouilleret
- Music Composer : Krishna Levy
- Assistant directors : Philippe Larue, Marc Olry
- Editor : Pauline Dairou
- Sound recordists : Régis Leroux, Amaury De Nexon
- Costume designer : Anne Fournier
- Foreign Producer : Pierre-Alain Meier
- Co-producers : Dante Desarthe, Nathalie Lamailière
- Assistant Operator : Patrick Allombert
- Production Manager : Mat Troi Day
- Press Attaché (film) : Matilde Incerti
- Sound Editor : Fabien Krzyzanowski
- Assistant editor : Ana Agnello
- Production Designer : André Fonsny
- Casting : Nathalie Chéron
- Sound Mixer : Olivier Dô Hûu
- Still Photographer : Bernard Fau
- Location Manager : Ludovic Henry
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Belgium, Switzerland
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Belgium, Switzerland)
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 03/03/1999
- Runtime : 1 h 28 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 88.516
- Visa issue date : 13/01/1999
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
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About
I liked the subject a great deal. It's a love story that takes place during the carnival in Dunkirk, a town that has an amazingly popular carnival, unique in France. Thomas Vincent had already made two shorts. Our work together on "Karnaval" led to true friendship. If producing a film also produces another friend, so much the better. I like the film enormously, and people who have already seen it have given it a good reception. If features a great young actress, Sylvie Testud. She's already well known in Germany, though not in France. But I predict she'll have a great future here, too. Being a producer means discovering talent - by which I also mean the other two actors, Clovis Cornillac, who is better known in the legitimate theater, and Amar Ben Abdellah, who hadn't ever acted in a film. Together they make an extraordinary trio. I've got a soft spot for this film because we really did a good job on the casting. We really worked to find the right people, took our time, thought about each role free from financial pressures.
(Alain Rozanes - producer)
