White Material
Synopsis
The setting is an African country during a period troubled by an uprising. In a farming region home to one of the rebel chiefs, Maria, a staunch and brave white woman, refuses to relinquish her coffee crop and to see the danger to her family that such an attitude provokes. For her, giving in is proof of weakness, cowardice. In this plantation, which has nourished three generations of whites, André, her ex-husband and father of their teenage son, is concerned about Maria’s blinkered outlook, her stubbornness and pride. He decides to organize, without her knowing, the family’s escape and its repatriation in France. André no longer believes in the value of coffee. He has remarried with a young African woman with whom he has a son, and for whom he’s willing to do anything – even betraying Maria by putting his fate in the hands of the mayor of the neighboring village. He believes he’s the mayor’s friend, but he doesn’t understand, could not even imagine that the mayor is implicated in the conflict, that he opposes the rebels, and has other things on his mind than saving this poor white family adrift, so amazingly cut off from reality. Neither Maria nor André are aware that a rebel officer with a price on his head is hiding in their very plantation. In the thick forest that spreads beyond the road bordering the territory, a small gang of child soldiers, that survives by plundering, lies in wait.
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Why Not Productions
- Co-productions : France 3 Cinéma, Goodfellas
- Film exports/foreign sales : Goodfellas
- French distribution : Wild Bunch Distribution
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Pascal Caucheteux
- Screenwriters : Claire Denis, Marie Ndiaye
- Director of Photography : Yves Cape
- Music Composer : Tindersticks (Groupe)
- Editor : Guy Lecorne
- Sound recordists : Jean-Paul Mugel, Christophe Winding, Christophe Vingtrinier
- Costume designer : Judy Shrewsbury
- Production manager : Isabelle Tillou
- Press Attaché (film) : André-Paul Ricci
- Sound editor : Josefina Rodriguez
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2007
- French release : 24/03/2010
- Runtime : 1 h 42 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 114.152
- Visa issue date : 22/03/2010
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
- Rating restrictions : Suitable for all viewers, with warnings
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