The Last Caravanserail
Synopsis
The stage production was a challenge; the film was another kind of challenge. With these productions, the Théâtre du Soleil has delved, body and soul, into one of the crucial problems of the 21st century, namely that of “human migration.” It was capable of lending an ear to hear the voices of these refugees and, through the timbre and tessitura, sharing with us their past, their present, their dreams, and their fears – all that which politicians and the media confiscates from them, and from us. With these refugees, the theater invented a new form that, because of the urgent need to tell this tale, intertwined documents and fictions. Through film, the characters are even closer to the audience, cinema fired by a theatrical inspiration: In this new creation, Ariane Mnouchkine rethinks stage narrative and the actors’ craft takes on a powerful new force.
Béatrice Picon-Vallin
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (16)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producers : Bel Air Media, Le Théâtre du soleil
- Co-production : ARTE France
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : François Duplat
- Director of Photography : Bernard Zitzermann
- Music Composer : Jean-Jacques Lemêtre
- Assistant Director : Charles-Henri Bradier
- Editor : Catherine Vilpoux
- Sound Recordist : Philippe Engel
- Costume designers : Marie-Hélène Bouvet, Nathalie Thomas, Annie Tran
- Press Attaché (film) : Jean-Max Causse
- Assistant editor : Lise Roure
- Production Designers : Serge Nicolaï, Jeremy James, Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini
Media Gallery
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2006
- French release : 22/11/2006
- Runtime : 4 h 28 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 116.679
- Visa issue date : 22/11/2006
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
