Voyages
Synopsis
Riwka is 65. The tourist bus she's on breaks down between Warsaw and Auschwitz. Anxiety mounts alarmingly in the racket of Yiddish conversation that follows. Regine, also 65, believes she's found her elderly father who's traveling across Europe to get to Paris. Vera, an 80-year-old Russian woman at the end of her life and alone in the world, has just immigrated to Israel. She's looking for the cousin she hasn't seen for many years. Alone, she hops on bus after bus. Everything is foreign to her, she gets totally lost, is on the verge of collapse. Then, finally in the last bus, purely by chance, she meets Riwka…
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Director (1)
Actors (14)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Les Films du Poisson
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, Héritage Films, Canal+ Cyfrowy, Paradise Films, Arte France Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : mk2 films
- French distribution : mk2 films
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producer : Yaël Fogiel
- Screenwriter : Emmanuel Finkiel
- Directors of Photography : Hans Meier, Jean-Claude Larrieu
- Assistant directors : Laurent Herbiet, Nicolas Cambois
- Editor : Emmanuelle Castro
- Sound recordists : Pierre Gamet, François Waledisch
- Costume designer : Jeanine Gonzalez
- Sound Assistant : Bernard Chaumeil
- Production Manager : Jean-Jacques Albert
- Press Attaché (film) : Monica Donati
- Sound Editor : Jean-Claude Laureux
- Assistant editor : Saskia Berthod
- Continuity supervisors : Bénédicte Darblay, Olivia Bruynoghe
- Production Designer : Katia Wyszkop
- Casting : Nathanièle Esther, Stéphane Touitou
- Sound Mixer : William Flageollet
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French, Hebrew
- Coproducer countries : Poland, Belgium, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Poland, Belgium, France)
- Production year : 1999
- French release : 22/09/1999
- Runtime : 1 h 55 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 91.257
- Visa issue date : 09/09/1999
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
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News & awards
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Awards (2)
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 2000
César Award for Best Editing : Emmanuelle Castro
César Award for Best First Feature
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About
At one time, the film could have been called "Promised Land." A promised land is typically the place where you're not and where you'd like to go. It's also the memories we have of people who've disappeared, the fantasy of one day finding them again. All of the film's characters have a kind of scar, an emptiness, due to what they've been through. They're searching for peace, happiness. In the end, we know all too well that it's a trap to think that a place, earth, will provide us with these. Right from the prologue, Riwka, the film's unifying character, is faced with her ghosts. She flees from the reality of her marriage and her life, believing that happiness is bound to be elsewhere.
Emmanuel Finkiel – Director
