The Year of Awakening
Synopsis
François is a sensitive and thoughtful student at a military boarding school in 1948. He is fourteen and an orphan, and the French are still fighting in Indochina, as they will continue to do for many years. He believes he will be sent to fight there when he graduates, and he is sure he will die in that far-away place. While he sees himself as stubbornly principled, others, including the school's bullies, simply see him as stubborn and a nuisance besides. In fact, his humiliation by the school's bullies is so constant that one of his persistent fantasies is to become a skilled boxer and trounce them all. That is one reason why he has become fixated on one of the school's military instructors, a handsome sergeant who was a championship boxer. While there may be an unformed erotic component to his fixation, it does not manifest overtly but adds fuel to his sexual initiation with the sergeant's wife.
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Director (1)
Actors (13)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Capricorne Productions
- Co-production : France 3 Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : RTBF - Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française, K2 Productions
- French distribution : BAC Films
Full credits (20)
- Executive Producers : Jacques-Eric Strauss, Joelle Bellon
- Adaptation : Gérard Corbiau, Andrée Corbiau, Michel Fessler
- Director of Photography : François Catonné
- Assistant directors : Véronique Labrid, Douglas Law, Eric Pierson
- Editor : Denise Vindevogel
- Sound Recordist : Alain Lachassagne
- Costume designer : Fabienne Katany
- Foreign Producer : Stéphane Thenoz
- Author of original work : Charles Juliet
- Associate Producer : Dominique Janne
- Sound Assistant : Philippe Combes
- Camera operators : Paco Wiser, Arthur Cloquet
- Assistant editors : Gervaise Demeure, Dominique Lefever
- Continuity supervisor : Zoé Zurstrassen
- Production Designer : Gérard Viard
- Casting : Marie-Christine Lafosse
- French Distributor : Jean Labadie
- Sound Mixer : Gérard Rousseau
- Still Photographer : Patrick Camboulive
- Location Manager : Claude Guymont
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Adolescence
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Belgium, France
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