THE STONE COUNCIL
synopsis
Diane Siprien is a scientist specialising in animal behaviour. Having adopted a five-year-old Thai child, she starts to see the links when a car accident that takes place two years later leaves him clinically dead. After his miraculous recovery, he is then kidnapped. Diane carries out her own investigation and discovers the real origins of the child and the exact causes of the accident, thereby revealing a secret murder that brings her all the way to Mongolia.
Adapted from the novel by Jean-Christophe Grangé
international title: | The Stone Council |
original title: | Le concile de pierre |
country: | France, Germany, Italy |
sales agent: | UGC International |
year: | 2005 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Guillaume Nicloux |
film run: | 100' |
release date: | BE 15/11/2006, FR 15/11/2006, IT 15/06/2007, ES 15/11/2007 |
screenplay: | Guillaume Nicloux, Stéphane Cabel |
cast: | Monica Bellucci, Catherine Deneuve, Elsa Zylberstein, Moritz Bleibtreu, Lorenzo Balducci |
cinematography by: | Peter Suschitzky |
film editing: | Guy Lecorne |
art director: | Olivier Radot |
costumes designer: | Thierry Delettre, Judy Shrewsbury |
producer: | Yves Marmion |
production: | UGC, Integral Film, RAI Cinema, TF1 Films Productions (FR) |
distributor: | UGC Distribution, DeA Planeta (ES), Les Films de L'Elysée (Benelux), JMH Distribution (CH), Spentzos Film (GR), SPI International (HU, SK, PO), Bioscop(CZ), 01 Distribution (IT), Prisvideo (PT) |