Synopsis
Maloin leads a simple, aimless life confined by the infinite sea; he barely notices the world around him. He has already accepted his life’s long and inevitable deterioration and his enormous solitude.
When he witnesses a murder, his life takes a whole other turn and he finds himself confronted by sin, morality, punishment, split between the boundaries of innocence and complicity. This state of skepticism leads him down the path of thinking about the importance of life and the meaning of existence.
The film touches on mankind’s indestructible desire for life, freedom, happiness, illusions never realized, these little nothings that bring us the energy to keep living, sleeping, and waking up day after day. Maloin’s story is our story, it is the story of all those who doubt and who can still wonder about their pale existence.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : 13 Prods
- Foreign production company : Black Forest Film
- French distribution : Shellac
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Paul Saadoun
- Screenwriters : Béla Tarr, Laszlo Krasznahorkai
- Director of Photography : Fred Kelemen
- Music Composer : Mihàly Vig
- Editor : Agnes Hranitzky
- Sound Recordist : György Kovacs
- Costume designer : Janos Breckl
- Author of original work : Georges Simenon
- Production managers : Jean-Claude Marchant, Pierre Dieulafait
- Press Attachés (film) : Chloé Lorenzi, Stanislas Baudry
- Production Designers : Laszlo Rajk, Agnes Hranitzky, Jean-Pascal Chalard
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : France, Hungary, Germany, Great Britain
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Hungary, Germany, Great Britain)
- Production year : 2005
- French release : 24/09/2008
- Runtime : 2 h 12 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 110.622
- Visa issue date : 04/03/2008
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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