Back to Square One
Synopsis
Half-brothers Joël and Régis have nothing in common but their father, who they barely know. Joël is unemployed and lacks initiative. France, a "racist country" according to him, is the cause of all his woes and being black is his constant excuse not to look for work or even pay for his bus ticket.
Régis is his totally integrated side. He is so well integrated, in fact, that he denies his black half and can't stand people referring to his origins. If you believed in what he says, you'd think crime and immigration go hand in hand. Called to their dying father's beside in the West Indies, all they receive for inheritance is the certificate declaring the freedom granted to their slave ancestors. The document has been passed down through the family from generation to generation. The brothers rip the certificate up, impervious to its symbolic value.
Determined to punish them for what they've just done, a mysterious elderly aunt, who has been keeping her eye on them since they arrived, decides to take them back in time. Cast back to 1780, smack dab in the slavery period, Joël and Régis will be sold at the market as slaves. They must join forces, not only to escape from the plantation, but also to find a way to get back to the 21st century.
Credits
Actors (19)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Légende
- Co-productions : Mars Films, TF1 Films Production
- Film exports/foreign sales : Other Angle Pictures
- French distribution : Mars Films
Full credits (17)
- Executive Producer : Alain Goldman
- Screenwriters : Fabrice Eboué, Thomas Ngijol, Jérôme Lhotsky
- Director of Photography : Jean-Claude Aumont
- Music Composer : Alexandre Azaria
- Assistant Director : Nicolas Guy
- Editor : Frédérique Olszak-Olszewski
- Sound Recordist : Pierre André
- Costume designers : Pierre-Jean Larroque, Gilles Bodu-Lemoine
- Associate producer : Catherine Morisse
- Production Manager : Marc Vadé
- Press Attaché (film) : Alexandra Schamis
- Sound Editor : Alain Féat
- Continuity supervisor : Laura Boitel
- Production Designer : Christian Marti
- Casting : Olivier Carbone
- Sound Mixer : François-Joseph Hors
- Location Manager : Alain Mougenot
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2010
- French release : 06/07/2011
- Runtime : 1 h 34 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 126.377
- Visa issue date : 17/06/2011
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 2.35
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
- Rating restrictions : None
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