Freedom
Synopsis
Théodore, a veterinarian and mayor of a village situated in France's occupied zone during World War Two, has taken in Little Claude, a nine-year-old boy whose parents have been missing since the beginning of the war. Mademoiselle Lundi, the elementary school teacher, gets to know the Gypsies who have set up camp not far from there. They've come to do grape-picking in the region. A staunch humanist and republican, she arranges, with Théodore's help, for the Gypsy children to go to school.
Meanwhile, Little Claude strikes up a friendship with Taloche, a thirty-year-old Gypsy who is a child at heart and who never goes anywhere without his violin. But the identity controls imposed by the Vichy regime increase and the Gypsies no longer have the right to travel about freely: Théodore therefore allows them to settle on one of his plots of land. Their nomadic life becomes a sedentary one.
While the Gypsy children take Mademoiselle Lundi's classes, Little Claude is increasingly fascinated by the Bohemians' way of life - a world of freedom where children are king. But joy and carefreeness don't last long: the pressure from the Vichy police and the Gestapo intensifies and the threat of danger is constant. Just as they've been doing for hundreds of years, the Gypsies must once again set out down the road.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (17)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Princes Films
- Co-productions : France 3 Cinéma, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : UGC Distribution
Full credits (16)
- Screenwriter : Tony Gatlif
- Director of Photography : Julien Hirsch
- Music Composers : Delphine Mantoulet, Tony Gatlif
- Assistant directors : Ève Guillou, Jean-Luc Roze, Valentin Dahmani
- Editor : Monique Dartonne
- Sound Recordist : Philippe Welsh
- Costume designer : Catherine Rigault
- Executive Producer : Delphine Mantoulet
- Sound Assistant : Romain Cadilhac
- Production Manager : Christian Paumier
- Press Attachés (film) : Robert Schlockoff, Valérie Chabrier
- Sound Editor : Adam Wolny
- Production Designer : Brigitte Brassart
- Director of Photography : Julien Hirsch
- Sound Mixer : Dominique Gaborieau
- Location managers : Alain Dahan, Christophe Masson
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Drama
- Themes : Wandering
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2008
- French release : 24/02/2010
- Runtime : 1 h 51 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 120.189
- Visa issue date : 04/06/2009
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Rating restrictions : None
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News & awards
News (3)
Selections (10)
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 2011
Best Original Music : Tony Gatlif, Delphine Mantoulet
Awards (1)
Montreal World Film Festival
Canada, 2009
Grand Prize of the Americas
Audience Award for the Most Popular Film
