The Besieged fortress
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Production year2005
French release18/10/2006
Runtime
1h 22m
Synopsis
In the middle of the African savannah, in south-eastern Burkina Faso, in the safety of their high tower, termites are hard at work when a drama turns their neat and ordered life upside down.
A deluge of tropical rain floods galleries and chambers, causing cracks and breaches to appear in the termites’ castle.
Not far from there, a colony of terrible, carnivorous ants prepares to attack.
They’ll take advantage of the tower’s fragility to launch a veritable assault. A merciless war ensues
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Production and distribution (6)
- Executive Producer : Les Films du Rêve
- Co-productions : France 2 Cinéma, TF1 International
- Foreign production company : Cité-Amérique
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : TFM Distribution
- News agency (France) : Initial Event
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producers : François Calderon, Thierry Commissionat, Benoît Tschieret
- Screenwriters : Philippe Calderon, Jérôme Dauffy, Guillaume Vincent
- Director of Photography : Nedjma Berder
- Music Composer : Frédéric Weber
- Assistant director : Geneviève Brune
- Editor : Sylvain Lebel
- Sound Recordist : Didier Gatouillat
- Voice : Benoît Allemane
- Production Manager : Benoît Tschieret
- Press Attaché (film) : Sophie Bataille
- Production Designer : Jean-Yves Kervenan
- Foley artist : Jonathan Liebling
- Visual effects : Jean-François Bachand, Emmanuel Mazeron
- Sound Mixer : Stéphane Bergeron
- Still Photographer : Guillaume Mazille
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Canada
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Canada)
- Production year : 2005
- French release : 18/10/2006
- Runtime : 1 h 22 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 112.934
- Visa issue date : 12/05/2006
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Digital DTS
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About
The film's working title was Termites, the Towering Inferno.
Resources
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