NO BIG DEAL
by Bernard Rapp
synopsis
From one day to the next, Léo, Max and Charlie, three (part) brothers, leave the fog of Liège behind and find themselves basking in the sun of Valencia, in the south of Spain.
They are there to fulfill the last wish of their dying father, Pablo, who adopted them when they were young. Pablo, exiled to France at the end of the Spanish Civil War, hasn’t been back home since. Unexpected encounters with their father’s friends and comrades reveal unknown aspects of the old man’s past. They cross paths with two elderly and playful anarchists, a rather peculiar Guardia Civil captain, a former toreador now a barkeep, a major who confuses his barracks with an opera house and, above all, the sublime Angela…
international title: | No Big Deal |
original title: | Pas si grave |
country: | France, Spain |
sales agent: | Pathé International |
year: | 2003 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Bernard Rapp |
film run: | 100' |
release date: | FR 05/03/2003, CH 12/03/2003, BE 11/06/2003 |
screenplay: | Bernard Rapp |
cast: | Sami Bouajila, Romain Duris, Jean-Michel Portal, Léonor Varela, Pep Munné, Jean-François Stévenin |
cinematography by: | Gérard de Battista |
film editing: | Françoise Berger-Garnault |
art director: | Pepón Sigler |
costumes designer: | Stéphane Rollot |
producer: | Didier Creste |
production: | Extravaganza, Mate Production, France 3 Cinéma |
distributor: | Pathé Distribution, Monopole Pathé CH), Imagine Film Distribution (BE) |