Shimkent Hotel
A Feature film of
Produced by
Production year2003
French release23/04/2003
Runtime1 h 30 min
Synopsis
In a small room in a hotel in Central Asia, young Alex tries to get his memory back and to confront the chaos that troubles the country. A chief of the French Secret Service and a neurologist keep him company. Little by little, snatches of the past rise to the surface. It begins like one of those adventure films that we loved when we were kids: Alex, Romain and Caroline head for an unfamiliar country where they have the opportunity to buy a share in one the former Soviet Union’s biggest factories. They’re filled with the desire to succeed and the ambition to do business. But the adventure becomes a nightmare and the trio must flee across the mountains of Afghanistan. Then comes the traumatic shock that leaves Alex an amnesiac.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Anna Sanders Films
- Foreign production company : Donaldson Polakoff Ltd
- French distribution : Bodega Films
Full credits (6)
- Executive Producer : Xavier Douroux
- Director of Photography : Guillaume Ledu
- Editor : Guillaume Ledu
- Costume designers : Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Catherine Izembart, Hervé Sauvage
- Press Attaché (film) : Agnès Chabot
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Christophe Julé
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Coproducer countries : Great Britain, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Great Britain, France)
- Production year : 2003
- French release : 23/04/2003
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 99.917
- Visa issue date : 11/04/2003
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
