When Ben falls ill with cancer and learns that he has only a short time to
live, his brother Léo is devastated. Léo loves his brother
and, to make his last days on Earth more bearable, he decides to use this
opportunity to fulfil a childhood dream - to hold up a bank. Without
delay, Léo gathers together his friends and makes all of the necessary
preparations Of course, they are not going to carry out a real hold-up,
just a pretend one. Unfortunately, the friends mix up the bank's address
and end up unwittingly performing a real hold-up. As Léo and
his friends go on the run, Inspector Bartoloméo sets out to find them.
What started out as a harmless game soon becomes something much more serious...
Script: John Eledjam,
Kev Adams,
Grégory Boutboul,
John Eledjam,
Edouard Pluvieux,
Edouard Pluvieux (dialogue)
Photo: Guillaume Schiffman
Cast: Kev Adams (Léo),
Vincent Elbaz (Bartoloméo),
Paul Bartel (Ben),
Chloé Coulloud (Ana),
John Eledjam (Franck),
Majid Berhila (Lounès),
Anne Suarez (Madame la Commissaire),
Guy Lecluyse (Bruno),
Frank Bellocq (Eric),
Rebecca Azan (Stéphanie),
Malonn Lévana (Emilie),
Chems Tricot (Max, 12),
Marc Wilhelm (Vincent OPJ),
Louise Chabat (Elise OPJ),
Nicolas Gabion (Jean-Louis OPJ),
Jina Djemba (Myriam),
Thérèse Roussel (Huguette),
Paula Jensen (La mère d'Emilie),
Baptiste Languer (Léo, 13),
Jessim Belfar (Lounès, 17)
Country: France
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 98 min
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.
In the 1940s, the shadowy, skewed visual style of 1920s German expressionism was taken up by directors of American thrillers and psychological dramas, creating that distinctive film noir look.
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.
American film comedy had its heyday in the 1920s and '30s, but it remains an important genre and has given American cinema some of its enduring classics.