Synopsis
One autumn morning in 1958, Manuel, 27, finds himself in a convoy of seasonal workers heading for the harsh work in the Camargue rice fields. He has fled his country, Franco's Spain, where he is a wanted man after wounding a "civil guard" during the crack-down on a strike in the Bilbao mines. Penniless, looking for work, he falls into the clutches of a "labour trader", a certain Roger who hires out illegal immigrants on request and shamelessly exploits them... Little by little, beneath the outer aspect of this rough, brutal and hated man, Manuel discovers a lonely individual who craves affection...
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Director (1)
Actors (8)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Les Films de la Liane
- Co-production : TSF
- Foreign production companies : Road Movies Dritte Produktionen, Luna Films Ltd.
- French distribution : Cinéma Public Films
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Patrick Deshayes
- Sound Recordist : Bernard Aubouy
- Screenwriters : Paul Carpita, Bernard Stora
- Director of Photography : Peter Chappell
- Sound assistant : Murielle Damain
- Press Attaché (film) : François Vila
- Editor : Juliana Sanchez
- Production Designer : Michel Lagrange
- Music Composer : Vladimir Cosma
- Costume designers : Michèle Paldacci, Chantal Castelli
- Sound Mixer : Éric Tisserand
- Still Photographers : Pierre Collier, Thierry Roux
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Emigration
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Great Britain, Germany, Great Britain, France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Great Britain, Germany, Great Britain, France)
- Production year : 1995
- French release : 25/09/1996
- Runtime : 1 h 45 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 85.804
- Visa issue date : 28/05/1996
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Audio format : Mono
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"The thing that charms me in Paul Carpita's films, even the most politically committed ones, is their deeply human content. Paul and I share the same work methods : we serve what is in front of our camera instead of dominating it and we never make the camera more important than people ! Paul started working like this ten years before anyone else. It is a tragedy that "Le Rendez-vous des quais" was banned and forgotten."
(Ken Loach - director)
