Comme ton père (2007)
Directed by Marco Carmel

Drama
aka: Father's Footsteps

Film Synopsis

In 1968, a family of Israeli émigrés, the Maïmons, arrive in Marseilles hoping to start a new life.  Not long after moving his family to Paris, Félix, the father, falls in with a gangster named Serge and soon ends up in prison.  His wife, Mireille, has to bring up their two sons, Eric and Michel, alone.  Ashamed by what has happened to Félix, she lets them believe that their father is back in Israel, fighting for his country. Will she prevent Serge from corrupting them?
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Film Credits

  • Director: Marco Carmel
  • Script: Serge Ankri, Marco Carmel, Séverine Jacquet, Emmanuel Pinto
  • Cinematographer: Giora Bejach
  • Music: Armand Amar
  • Cast: Richard Berry (Serge), Yaël Abecassis (Mireille), Gad Elmaleh (Félix), Jules-Angelo Bigarnet (Michel), Corentin Daumas (Éric), Jean-Philippe Écoffey (Inspecteur Berthelier), Bruno Abraham-Kremer (Albert), Lucia Bensasson (Myriam), Arsène Mosca (L'épicier), Louison Bergman (Laurence), Malik Nait Djoudi (Farid), Juliette Lopes-Benites (Cécile), Ahmed Elkourachi (Ahmed), Karim Hocini (Mustapha), Marc Faure (Le juge Potter), Paulette Frantz (La caissière du cinéma), Yves-Robert Viala (Le vieux monsieur), Claudine Acs (La vieille dame), Christian Ameri (Roger), Clément Aubert (Policier)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 95 min
  • Aka: Father's Footsteps

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