The Gravedigger's Wife
Synopsis
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already working hard as a gravedigger to make ends meet: how can they find the money to save Nasra and keep the family together?
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Production and distribution (5)
- Co-production : Pyramide Productions
- Foreign production companies : Bufo, Twenty Twenty Vision
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distributors : Urban Distribution, STUDIOCANAL
- News agency (France) : Anyways
Full credits (7)
- Screenwriter : Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
- Director of Photography : Arttu Peltomaa
- Music Composer : André Matthias
- Editor : Sebastian Thümler
- Co-producers : Robin Boespflug-Vonier, Stéphane Parthenay
- Press Attaché (film) : Florence Alexandre
- Production Designer : Antti Nikkinen
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Somali
- Coproducer countries : Finland (57.88%), Germany (28.26%), France (13.86%)
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Minority French (Finland, Germany, France)
- Production year : 2020
- French release : 27/04/2022
- Runtime : 1 h 22 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 152.415
- Visa issue date : 22/12/2020
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : HD 2K
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 2.39
- Audio format : 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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