Sur la tête de ma mère
Synopsis
Paris, student rebellions. Hooded young people plunder and kill a tobacconist. In its escape, a minor finds himself at an old lady's house and falls on a chest of drawers Napoleon III. She knocks out him. When he awakes, the young man is attached. He has only three hours to repair the piece of furniture because, at midnight, the old lady decided to end her life. And she does not wish to leave a piece of furniture broken in inheritance to her only daughter.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (2)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Europartists
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Philippe W. Guillaume
- Screenwriter : Éric Lathière
- Director of Photography : Fabio Maiorino
- Editor : Élisabeth Feytit
- Sound Recordist : Frédéric Commault
- Author of original work : Éric Lathière
- Co-producer : Éric Lathière
- Sound editors : Élisabeth Feytit, Nostradine Benguezzou
- Production designers : Stafford Saarbach, Véronique Troussard
- Special Effects : Benjamin Roth
- Sound Mixer : Nostradine Benguezzou
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy, Drama
- Themes : Encounters, Solitude/loneliness
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2004
- Runtime : 19 min 30 seconds
- Visa number : 109.920
- Visa issue date : 15/06/2004
- Production formats : Mini DV
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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Adapted from the play The Head of my mother by Éric Lathière.
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