The Search (2014)
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius

Drama / War

Film Synopsis

During the second Chechen war of 1999, a small boy joins the tide of refugees after his parents are killed in his home village.  He meets Carole, a representative from the EU who will help him get his life back on track.  Unbeknown to him, his older sister, Raissa, is trying to find him amid the hoards of fleeing civilians.  Meanwhile, a 20-year-old Russian named Kolia has just enrolled in the army.  His life will soon be upset by the day to day experience of the war...
© James Travers
The above content is owned by frenchfilms.org and must not be copied.


Film Credits

  • Director: Michel Hazanavicius
  • Script: Michel Hazanavicius
  • Cinematographer: Guillaume Schiffman
  • Cast: Bérénice Bejo (Carole), Annette Bening (Helen), Maksim Emelyanov (Kolia), Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev (Hadji), Zukhra Duishvili (Raïssa), Lela Bagakashvili (Elina), Yuriy Tsurilo (The Colonel), Anton Dolgov ('Pocket'), Mamuka Matchitidze (Father), Rusudan Pareulidze (Mother), Nika Apriashvili (Red Cross Translator), Nika Kipshidze, Nino Kobakhidze
  • Country: France / Georgia
  • Language: French / English / Russian / Chechen
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 135 min

The very best sci-fi movies
sb-img-19
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.
The best French war films ever made
sb-img-6
For a nation that was badly scarred by both World Wars, is it so surprising that some of the most profound and poignant war films were made in France?
The very best period film dramas
sb-img-20
Is there any period of history that has not been vividly brought back to life by cinema? Historical movies offer the ultimate in escapism.
The history of French cinema
sb-img-8
From its birth in 1895, cinema has been an essential part of French culture. Now it is one of the most dynamic, versatile and important of the arts in France.
Kafka's tortuous trial of love
sb-img-0
Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancée Felice Bauer not only reveal a soul in torment; they also give us a harrowing self-portrait of a man appalled by his own existence.
 

Other things to look at


Copyright © frenchfilms.org 1998-2024
All rights reserved



All content on this page is protected by copyright