FRIENDS FROM FRANCE

LES INTERDITS

By Anne WEIL, Philippe KOTLARSKI

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Drama - Completed 2013


Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2013
Contemporary World Cinema
RDV Unifrance 2014
    • Year of production
    • 2013
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, RUSSIAN
    • Budget
    • 5 - 10 M$
    • Duration
    • 100 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Anne WEIL, Philippe KOTLARSKI
    • Writer(s)
    • Anne WEIL, Philippe KOTLARSKI
    • Producer(s)
    • Laetitia GONZALEZ (LES FILMS DU POISSON), Yaël FOGIEL (LES FILMS DU POISSON)
    • Synopsis
    • 1979. Carole and Jerome are 20 and go on an organized trip to Odessa, behind the Iron Curtain. They’re cousins but pretend they’re engaged. In the day, simple tourists, they visit monuments and museums. In the evening, they slip away from the group and secretly meet “refuseniks”, Jews persecuted by the Soviet regime for wanting to leave the country. They discover an underground world, cruel and absurd. While Carole is motivated by political commitment and a taste for risk, for Jérôme, the real motivation behind this trip is Carole.