Esther Kahn
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Production year2000
French release04/10/2000
Runtime2 h 25 min
Synopsis
London at the end of the 19th century.
Esther Kahn lives in the East End, child of Jewish immigrants.
They all work in the family’s tailor shop. Esther is slow and closed in on herself, she voices no opinions about anything, no feelings for anyone; Esther is stone.
It’s when she goes to the theater that Esther “awakens” and comes to life, for she doesn’t look at plays in the same way that others do, she lives them.
She decides to become an actress.
Thus begins her apprenticeship in the theater and the world which culminates one night, on stage, when she suddenly feels the effects of twenty years of repressed existence surge from within her.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (7)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Why Not Productions
- Co-productions : Les Films Alain Sarde, France 3 Cinéma, France 2 Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Arts Council of England, BSkyB - British Sky Broadcasting, British Screen
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distribution : BAC Films
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producer : Pascal Caucheteux
- Screenwriters : Arnaud Desplechin, Emmanuel Bourdieu
- Director of Photography : Éric Gautier
- Music Composer : Howard Shore
- Assistant directors : Shirel Amitay, Aude Cathelin
- Editors : Hervé De Luze, Martine Giordano
- Sound recordists : Ray Beckett, Jean-Pierre Laforce, Malcolm Davis
- Costume designer : Nathalie Duerrinckx
- Co-producers : Grégoire Sorlat, Alain Sarde
- Press Attaché (film) : Agnès Chabot
- Sound Editor : Pascal Villard
- Assistant editors : Gordana Othnin-Girard, Mathilde Cousin, Laurence Briaud, Sophie Henocq, Magali Léonard, Clotilde Tellier, Camille Toubkis
- Production Designer : John Henson
- French Distributor : Jean Labadie
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : Great Britain, France
- Original French-language productions : No
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News & awards
News (2)
Selections (5)
Munich - International Film Festival
Germany, 2000
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