Blame It on Voltaire
- Original title
- La faute à Voltaire (Poetical Refugee)
- Year
- 2000
- Running time
- 130 min.
- Country
- France
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Sami Bouajila
- Elodie Bouchez
- Bruno Lochet
- Aure Atika
- Olivier Loustau
- Virginie Darmon
- Mustapha Adouani
- Sami Zitouni
- Carole Franck
- Jean-Michel Fete
- Manuel Lelievre
- François Genty
- Meryem Serbah
- Francis Arnaud
- Tonio Descanvelle
- Joël Barbouth
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- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Immigration. Social Drama. Romantic Drama. Psychological Drama
- Synopsis
- Young Moroccan Jallel (Sami Bouajila) comes looking for the lights of Paris but instead finds black-market jobs and crowded hostels. Yet he also discovers a bracing solidarity between newcomers and outcasts from French society, especially Lucie (Elodie Bouchez, from "Dreamlife of Angels"), a disturbed young Frenchwoman who will give Jallel a distinctive experience of his new country.
- Awards
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2000: Venice Film Festival: Award for a First Film
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