Une minute de silence (1998)

Note des utilisateurs:

5.6/10   

Réalisateur:

Florent Emilio Siri

Scénariste:

Florent Emilio Siri (writer)

Release Date:

25 novembre 1998 (France)

Genre:

Drame

Awards:

1 win

Avis des utilisateurs:

A Germinal for our times?

Ensemble

Benoît Magimel	...	Marek
Bruno Putzulu	...	Mimmo
Jean-Yves Chatelais	...	Stanis, Mark's uncle
Andrea Schieffer	...	The journalist
Alexander May	...	Freddy
Eric Savin	...	Tony
Olivier Parenty	...	Spitz
Pierre Martot	...	Frantz
Kader Boukhanef	...	Ibrahim
Florence Giorgetti	...	Cabaret woman
André Marcon	...	Snack owner
Rüdiger Vogler	...	Jäger

Réalisé par
Florent Emilio Siri

Scénaristes (in alphabetical order)
Florent Emilio Siri		writer

Produit par
Marc de Bayser	....	producer
Frank Le Wita	....	producer

Musique originale
Alexandre Desplat

Image
Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci

Montage
Joëlle Dufour

Distribution des rôles
Pierre Sénélas

Création des décors
Thomas Peckre

Assistant réalisateur
Alexandre Billon	....	second assistant director
Pierre Sénélas	....	assistant director

Technicien du son
Germain Boulay	....	supervising sound editor
Rémi Clément	....	dialogue editor
Daniel Ollivier	....	sound
Christian Riffard	....	post-production audio
Williams Schmit	....	sound re-recording mixer
Eric Tisserand	....	sound
Stéphane Vizet	....	boom operator

Camera and Electrical Department
Rolf Rosendahl	....	assistant camera

Music Department
Edouard Dubois	....	music consultant
Edouard Dubois	....	musician: harmonica solo

Divers
Raphaël Gonnet	....	production assistant
Gabi Scheiger	....	production coordinator: Germany

Production Companies

• Canal+
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)
• Champ Contre Champ
• Conseil Régional de Lorraine
• Eurimages
• Film Oblige
• Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Idéa
• K2 SA
• Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion (II)

Distributors

• Epix Media (2007) (Germany) (DVD)
• Pierre Grise Distribution

Autre(s) titre(s):

Dérapages (France) (working title)

Durée:

88 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français | Polonais

Couleur:

Couleur

Son:

Dolby SR

Classification:

France:U

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Merlebach, Freyming-Merlebach, Moselle, France

Company:

Canal+

A Germinal for our times?

A hundred years time after Emile Zola and his Germinal ,a page has been turned.There are no more miners in France."Une minute de silence" depicts the last moments of a mine in Merlebach.Some things have not changed:everything belongs to the mine,including the one-eyed's cafe.

The director was heavily influenced by Kenneth Loach whose shade hangs over the whole movie.But not for the best:The only thing the script writers seem to have learned from the English artist is a loose plot,and in spite of some good actors,such as Bruno Pulutzu,de la comedy française,the movie never really takes off.Unlike Loach's characters these ones are not really endearing and we do not really care about them.The "minute of silence" -which gives the movie its title is a good trick,which might allow the viewers to make some dough,provided their friends did not see the movie,but the connection with the movie escapes me,I fear.Of course,when somebody dies (or something:here,the mines),the minute of silence is de rigueur.But the metaphor is ponderous it's the least we can say.