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ADIEU

by Arnaud Des Pallières

synopsis

Under threat in Algeria, Ismahel emigrates to France where he wants to live and work, with the hope that the people he's fleeing from will forget him the time he is away. In the letters that he writes to the daughter that he left behind in his homeland, he tells his own story in the guise of the biblical tale of Jonas and the Whale.
Somewhere in France, an elderly farmer has just lost his young son. His three other children help him as much as they can to get through the trial of the funeral, but the ceremony is halted when the old man falls ill. The two stories unfold parallel to each other and are alternated.

original title: Adieu
country: France
year: 2003
genre: fiction
directed by: Arnaud Des Pallières
film run: 124'
release date: FR 8/09/2004
screenplay: Arnaud Des Pallières
cast: Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Gourmet, Laurent Lucas, Aurore Clément, Axel Bogousslavski, Mohamed Rouahbi, Thierry Bosc, Carlo Brandt, Karole Rocher, Jacques Dacqmine, Jean François Zeller
cinematography by: Julien Hirsch
film editing: Arnaud Des Pallières
art director: François Girard II
music: Martin Wheeler
producer: Philippe Hagege
production: Les Films d'Ici, ARTE France
backing: Conseil Régional d'Auvergne, Centre National de la Cinématographie

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