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Le Havre

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Original title

Le Havre

Year

2011

Running time

93 min.

Country

Finland

Director

Aki Kaurismäki

Screenwriter

Aki Kaurismäki

Cast

Music

Various

Cinematography

Timo Salminen

Producer

Co-production Finland-France-Germany;

Janus Films, Pandora Film, Pyramide Productions, Sputnik

Genre

Comedy. Drama | Comedy-Drama. Immigration

Synopsis

Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of the honourable, but not too profitable, of a shoe-shiner. He has buried his dreams of a literary breakthrough and lives happily within the triangle of his favourite bar, his work, and his wife Arletty, when fate suddenly throws in his path an underage immigrant refugee from the darkest Africa.

As Arletty at the same time gets seriously ill and is bedridden, Marcel once more has to rise against the cold wall of human indifference with his only weapon of innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of the people of his quartier, but against him stands the whole blind machinery of the Western constitutionally governed state, this time represented by the dragnet of the police, moment by moment drawing closer around the refugee boy. It's time for Marcel to polish his shoes and reveal his teeth.

Rankings Position

#122 Best Nordic Countries Films

Awards: 2011: Cesar Awards: 3 nominations: Best Film, Director & Production Desing

2011: Cannes Film Festival: FIPRESCI Award. Official Selection

2011: European Film Awards: 4 nominations

2011: Satellite Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film

2011: Critics Choice Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film

2012: Gaudí Awards: Nominated for Best European Film

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Ranking Lists Position

47 My Top 10 Movies from 2011 (102)

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