Synopsis
Under threat in Algeria, Ismaël emigrates to France the time it takes for the people who he’s fleeing from to forget about him. He employs the myth of Jonas and the whale to tell the tale of his clandestine journey.
Elsewhere in France an elderly farmer loses his youngest son. His three other children help him through the ordeal of the funeral while he progressively sinks into a kind of melancholy indifference, slowly losing his desire to live. The two stories unfold parallel to each other.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (14)
Production and distribution (3)
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producer : Serge Lalou
- Assistant directors : Frédéric Goupil, Sophie Couderc
- Sound recordists : Jean-Pierre Duret, Olivier Mauvezin
- Screenwriter : Arnaud des Pallières
- Director of Photography : Julien Hirsch
- Sound Assistant : Jean-Sébastien Guille
- Assistant Operator : Jean-Christophe Beauvallet
- Production Manager : Philippe Hagege
- Press Attaché (film) : Chloé Lorenzi
- Editor : Arnaud des Pallières
- Production Designer : François Girard
- Music Composer : Martin Wheeler
- Casting : Maya Serrulla
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Pierre Laforce
- Location manager : Frédérique Jacomet
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Immigration, Family
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2003
- French release : 08/09/2004
- Runtime : 2 h 4 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 106.066
- Visa issue date : 21/07/2004
- Approval : No
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
