Synopsis
Young Sulayman lives in Morocco in the "clay rock" region, in perfect harmony with the fauna and flora. An orphan, he was raised by an elderly hermit nicknamed the man "with the unruly veins." Sulayman encounters Khadija, the daughter of the chief of a vast region, a man hungry for power who views with a jaundiced eye his daughter's marriage with a shepherd.
At the moment when the Second World War is declared, Sulayman is forcibly enrolled in the French army. He finds himself traversing unknown lands, as intriguing as they are dangerous. Plunged into the atrocities of the war, he decides to try at any cost to find a form of humanity in the fate of the Moroccan soldiers embarked despite themselves into a conflict that barely concerns them... More than a war film, Les Hommes d'argile is a fable about the human condition.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (10)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Un Souffle Production
- Foreign production companies : Les Films de Nour, Entre Deux Rives
- French distribution : Axxon Films
Full credits (11)
- Assistant directors : Fabrice Couchard, Jacques Nicolle, Abdelhalim Ouahbi
- Sound recordists : Thomas Bouric, Mohammed Mouilid, Najib Chlih
- Screenwriters : Mourad Boucif, Luc Jabon
- Director of Photography : Michel Baudour
- Press Attaché (film) : Liliane Sloimovits
- Editor : Michèle Hubinon
- Sound Editor : Philippe Bluard
- Production Designer : Aurélien Geneix
- Music Composers : Mourad Boucif, Emré Gultékin
- Costume designer : Nathalie Leborgne
- Sound Mixer : David Gillain
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, War
- Production language : Arabic, French
- Coproducer countries : Belgium, Morocco, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2015
- French release : 20/09/2017
- Runtime : 1 h 45 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 147.351
- Approval :
- Color type : Color
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1