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PRODUCTION / FUNDING France / Belgium

EXCLUSIVE: David Oelhoffen is shooting Les Derniers Hommes

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- Guido Caprino, Andrzej Chyra and Nuno Lopes are toplining the French filmmaker’s new movie, which is produced by Galatée Films, sold by Orange Studio and currently shooting in French Guiana

EXCLUSIVE: David Oelhoffen is shooting Les Derniers Hommes
Actors Guido Caprino, Andrzej Chyra (© Fryta 73) and Nuno Lopes (© Academia Portuguesa de Cinema)

As of mid-February, David Oelhoffen has been shooting Les Derniers Hommes, his 4th feature film after Nos retrouvailles [+see also:
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(screened in Cannes’ Critics’ Week 2007), Far From Men [+see also:
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(in competition in Venice 2014) and Close Enemies [+see also:
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(in competition in Venice 2018).

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Leading the cast, we find Italy’s Guido Caprino (nominated for 2020’s International Emmy Award for Best Actor, courtesy of the series 1994, and similarly well-received in The Guest Room [+see also:
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and With Or Without You [+see also:
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interview: Stefano Sardo
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), Poland’s Andrzej Chyra (recently at his best in Never Gonna Snow Again [+see also:
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and Walden [+see also:
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, to name just two) and Portugal’s Nuno Lopes (awarded the Best Actor Orizzonti Prize in Venice 2016 thanks to Saint George [+see also:
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Q&A: Marco Martins
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; recently impressive in An Easy Girl [+see also:
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).

Adapted by Jacques Perrin, writer Laurent Gaudé and the late Jean Vautrin, alongside Christophe Cheysson, Éric Deroo and David Oelhoffen (nominated for 2016’s Best Adapted Screenplay César via SK1 [+see also:
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) based on Alain Gandy’s book Les Chiens Jaunes, the story takes us back to March 1945. The Japanese army launch a sudden, brutally violent assault on the French garrisons in the Far East. Thousands of civilians and soldiers are killed. Stalked by the Japanese enemy, a column of legionnaires who are already weakened by alcohol and disease decide to traverse the jungle in an attempt to reach China and allied bases.

Les Derniers Hommes is produced by Jacques Perrin on behalf of Galatée Films, in co-production with Belgium’s Versus Productions and Allons voir. Pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature film enjoys support from French Guiana, where the film will be shot in its entirety until mid-April, with Guillaume Deffontaines (nominated for the 2017 César in his speciality by way of Slack Bay [+see also:
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Q&A: Bruno Dumont
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) heading up photography. Distribution in France will be steered by Le Pacte while international sales fall to Orange Studio.

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(Translated from French)

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