FRIENDS FROM FRANCE
by Anne Weil, Philippe Kotlarski
synopsis
1979. Carole and Jerome are 20 and go on tour in Odessa, behind the Iron Curtain. They are cousins and pretend engaged. The day as tourists, they visit monuments and museums. In the evening, they part company and the group meet clandestinely refuseniks, Jews harassed by the Soviet regime for trying to leave the country. They discover an unknown world, brutal and absurd. If Carole is driven by the commitment and willingness to take risks, to Jerome, the real motivation of this trip is Carole.
| international title: | Friends from France |
| original title: | Les Interdits |
| country: | France, Germany, Russia, Canada |
| sales agent: | Pyramide International |
| year: | 2013 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Anne Weil, Philippe Kotlarski |
| film run: | 100' |
| release date: | FR 27/11/2013, DE 17/04/2014 |
| screenplay: | Anne Weil, Philippe Kotlarski |
| cast: | Stéphanie Sokolinski a.k.a. Soko, Jérémie Lippmann, Vladimir Friedman, Ania Bukstein |
| cinematography by: | Frédéric Serve |
| film editing: | Philippe Kotlarski |
| costumes designer: | Alexia Crisp-Jones |
| producer: | Laetitia Gonzalez, Yael Fogiel |
| co-producer: | Hanneke Van Der Tas, Aylet Kait, Karel Chvojka, Miloš Lochman, Martin Paul-Hus |
| production: | Les Films du Poisson, Vandertastic, Rock Films/Russia, Amérique Film/Canada |
| backing: | CNC, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Deutscher Filmförderungsfonds, Filmförderungsanstalt, Russian Cinema Fund, SODEC, Canal +, Orange Cinéma Séries, Hoche Artois Images |
| distributor: | Pyramide Distribution, Farbfilm Verleih GmbH |
