The Child
A Feature film of
Produced by
Production year2005
French release19/10/2005
Runtime1 h 40 min
Synopsis
Bruno is twenty, Sonia is eighteen. They live off Sonia's welfare payments and the loot gleaned from robberies made by Bruno and the kids of his gang. Sonia has recently given birth to Jimmy, their child. How can Bruno become a father when he is so irresponsible and lives only for the moment, his only preoccupation being the money from his scams?
Credits
Actors (17)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Archipel 35 / Archipel 33
- Co-production : Arte France Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : RTBF - Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française, Les Films du Fleuve
- Film exports/foreign sales : Celluloid Dreams
- French distribution : Diaphana
Full credits (20)
- Executive Producer : Denis Freyd
- Screenwriters : Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
- Director of Photography : Alain Marcoen
- Assistant directors : Bernard Garant, Caroline Tambour
- Editor : Marie-Hélène Dozo
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Pierre Duret
- Costume designer : Monic Parelle
- Foreign producers : Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Olivier Bronckart
- Associate producer : Geneviève Lemal
- Co-producer : Rémi Burah
- Sound Assistant : Benoît De Clerck
- Assistant Operators : Amaury Duquenne, Hichame Alaouié
- Camera Operator : Benoît Dervaux
- Production manager : Véronique Marit
- Press Attachés (film) : Marie-Christine Damiens, Grégory Fleuriet
- Sound editors : Benoît De Clerck, Julie Brenta
- Assistant editor : Sophie Vercruysse
- Production Designer : Igor Gabriel
- Sound Mixer : Thomas Gauder
- Still Photographer : Christine Plenus
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Belgium
- Original French-language productions : Yes
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News & awards
News (10)
Selections (25)
Awards (2)
Lumiere Awards
France, 2006
Meilleur film francophone
