The Sea Wall
Synopsis
Indochina, 1931. In the Gulf of Siam, a mother survives as best she can with her two children, Joseph (20) and Suzanne (16), who she watches grow up and whose departure she knows is inevitable. Abused by the colonial administration, she has invested all her savings in a block of land that is regularly flooded, and is therefore unable to be farmed. Fighting against the corrupt bureaucrats who've cheated her, and who now threaten to evict her, she puts all her energy into a crazy project: to construct a sea wall with the help of the village farmers. Ruined and obsessed by her undertaking, she more or less leaves Joseph and Suzanne to their own devices. It is then that M.Jo, the son of a rich Chinese businessman, falls under Suzanne's spell. The family tries to take advantage of the situation.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (14)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Catherine Dussart Production (CDP)
- Co-productions : France 2 Cinéma, STUDIOCANAL
- Foreign production company : SCOPE Pictures
- Film exports/foreign sales : Playtime
- French distribution : Diaphana
Full credits (19)
- Executive Producer : Catherine Dussart
- Screenwriters : Rithy Panh, Michel Fessler
- Director of Photography : Pierre Millon
- Music Composer : Marc Marder
- Assistant Director : Pascal Guérin
- Editor : Marie-Christine Rougerie
- Sound Recordist : Pierre Mertens
- Costume designer : Édith Vesperini
- Author of original work : Marguerite Duras
- Associate producer : Geneviève Lemal
- Co-producer : Alexandre Lippens
- Production Manager : Pierre Wallon
- Press Attaché (film) : Laurence Granec
- Sound Editor : Marc Bastien
- Continuity supervisor : Géraldine Depardon
- Production Designer : Yan Arlaud
- Casting : Gérard Moulevrier
- Sound Mixer : Thomas Gauder
- Unit Production Manager : Anne Farrer
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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 : Unspecified
