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Shooting to commence on Heroes Don't Die

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- Adèle Haenel and Jonathan Couzinié star in Aude Léa Rapin's first feature. A Les Films du Worso production sold by Le Pacte

Shooting to commence on Heroes Don't Die
Actors Adèle Haenel and Jonathan Couzinié

Filming is due to commence on on Monday, 2 July on Aude Léa Rapin's first feature, Heroes Don't Die [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Aude Léa Rapin
film profile
]
. Well-known for her short films such as Que vive l’Empereur (in competition at Locarno in 2016 and out of competition at Rotterdam in 2017), Ton coeur au hasard (three distinctions at Clermont-Ferrand in 2015, including the national competition’s Grand Prix) and La Météo des plages (in national competition at Clermont-Ferrand in 2014), Rapin has cast Adèle Haenel (winner of a César award in 2015 for Best Actress in Love At First Fight [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Thomas Cailley
film profile
]
and a César in 2014 Best Supporting Actress in Suzanne [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Katell Quillévéré
film profile
]
, also appreciated in Orphan [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Arnaud des Pallières
film profile
]
, The Unknown Girl [+see also:
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trailer
Q&A: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
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]
, Ogres [+see also:
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trailer
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]
, BPM (Beats Per Minute) [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Arnaud Valois
interview: Robin Campillo
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]
and more recently in The Trouble With You [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Pierre Salvadori
film profile
]
), Jonathan Couzinié (To the Ends of the World [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Guillaume Nicloux
film profile
]
, [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Marie Monge
film profile
]
Treat Me Like Fire [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Marie Monge
film profile
]
, Raising Colors [+see also:
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trailer
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]
), Antonia Buresi (Summertime [+see also:
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trailer
film profile
]
, Planetarium [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Rebecca Zlotowski
film profile
]
), Bosnian actor Damir Kustura (On The Path [+see also:
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trailer
film profile
]
) and fellow Bosnian-born actress Hasija Boric (Grbavica [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Barbara Albert
interview: Jasmila Zbanic
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]
).

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Written by Aude Léa Rapin in collaboration with Jonathan Couzinié, the screenplay focuses on Joachim, an actor, and Alice, a director in the making. One morning, a tramp mistakes Joachim for a criminal called Zoran who died on 21 August 1983, the day of Joachim's birth... The two friends soon become obsessed with the coincidence and it develops into the perfect starting point for a film. They decide to go in search of Zoran's grave, a quest that will take them to the Balkans, an area haunted by the ghosts of war. While directing their film about reincarnation, Alice grants Joachim his last wishes. His heart is fragile, his life hanging on a thread, and Alice is about to make him immortal forever.

Produced by Sylvie Pialat and Benoît Quainon for Les Films du Worso, Heroes Don't Die has a €1,000,000 budget. Co-produced by delegate Clément Miserez for Radar Films, the feature film was also co-produced by the Belgian outfit Scope Pictures and the Bosnian outfit SSCA/PRO.BA. Pre-purchased by Ciné+, the film has received financial support from Sofica Cinecap, Cineventure and Arte/Cofinova. The five weeks of filming will end on 7 August and will include two days in Paris and 23 days in Bosnia with Paul Guilhaume (Ava [+see also:
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interview: Léa Mysius
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]
) on board as director of photography. Le Pacte will be driving French distribution and international sales.

For the record, Les Films du Worso screened the excellent film To the Ends of the World by Guillaume Nicloux at the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes (which is due to be released in France in December) and have also previously produced Happy Birthday [+see also:
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]
 by Cédric Kahn, whose previous film – The Prayer [+see also:
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interview: Cédric Kahn
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]
(winner of the Best Actor Award at Berlin in February) – they also produced. They also helped produce the co-production Keep Going [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Joachim Lafosse
film profile
]
by the Belgian director Joachim Lafosse and The Whistlers [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Corneliu Porumboiu
film profile
]
by Roumain Corneliu Porumboiu, both of which are currently in post-production.

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(Translated from French)

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