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| Valérie Mairesse | ... | Monique | |
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| Manon Tournier | ... | Sylvie | |
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| Jean-Gabriel Nordmann | ... | Officier militaire | |
| Marie Legault | ... | Odette | |
| Roland Menou | ... | Surveillant | |
| Jérôme Keen | ... | Employé Assistance Publique | |
| Jean-Pierre Moulin | ... | Père de Gisèle | |
| Yvette Petit | ... | Mère de Gisèle | |
| Afida Tahri | ... | Aïcha | |
| Abdelhafid Metalsi | ... | Saïd | |
| Josette Motteau | ... | Madame Lurcat | |
| Alice Lautner | ... | Marie | |
| Alain Pigeaux | ... | Vendeur du bazar | |
| Baptiste Boget | ... | Blondel | |
| Jérôme Barroin | ... | Garcin | |
| Jocelyn Goyard | ... | Claude | |
| Alban Thuault | ... | Pierrot | |
| Messaoud Hattau | ... | Le vieux Kabyle (as Messaoud Hattou) | |
| reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique: | |||
| Audrey Ciais | ... | La bonne du curé (uncredited) | |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... | Himself (uncredited) (archive footage) | |
| Quentin Grosset | ... | Un orphelin (uncredited) | |
| Benjamin Lemaire | ... | Un orphelin (uncredited) | |
Réalisé par | |||
| Thomas Gilou | |||
Scénaristes(dans l'ordre alphabétique) | ||
| Jean Cosmos | writer | |
| Thomas Gilou | writer | |
| Messaoud Hattau | writer (as Messaoud Hattou) | |
Produit par | |||
| Luc Besson | .... | executive producer | |
| Michel Feller | .... | producer | |
| Pierre-Ange Le Pogam | .... | producer | |
| Michel Propper | .... | executive producer | |
| Mehdi Sayah | .... | assistant producer | |
Musique originale | |||
| Alexandre Desplat | |||
Image | |||
| Robert Alazraki | |||
Montage | |||
| Francine Sandberg | |||
Distribution des rôles | |||
| Fabienne Bichet | |||
Création des décors | |||
| Laure Lepelley-Monbillard | (as Laure Lepelley) | ||
Création des costumes | |||
| Catherine Bouchard | |||
Directeur de production | |||
| Gregory Barrau | .... | unit production manager | |
| Eric Bassoff | .... | post-production supervisor | |
| Kader Djedra | .... | unit production manager | |
| Julien Flick | .... | assistant unit manager | |
| Marc Olla | .... | production manager | |
Assistant réalisateur | |||
| Barbara Dupont | .... | second assistant director | |
| Julien Greco | .... | additional second assistant director | |
| Maurice Hermet | .... | first assistant director | |
| Sébastien Marziniak | .... | additional assistant director | |
| Romaric Thomas | .... | trainee assistant director | |
Département Art | |||
| Tom Danos | .... | carpenter | |
| Britta Demasse | .... | set dresser | |
| Antoine Dore | .... | property master | |
| Rouches Frank | .... | prop buyer | |
| Anne Pelosi | .... | assistant art director | |
Technicien du son | |||
| Fabien Adelin | .... | sound mixer | |
| Adrien Arnaud | .... | foley editor | |
| Emmanuel Augeard | .... | sound editor | |
| Thomas Bernard | .... | sound recordist | |
| Lohengrin Braconnier | .... | sound recordist | |
| Philippe Lauprete | .... | boom operator | |
| Philippe Lecoeur | .... | sound | |
| Bernard Le Roux | .... | sound mixer | |
| Fred Mays | .... | post-synchronization | |
Effets spéciaux | |||
| Pascal Molina | .... | special effects supervisor | |
Visual Effects | |||
| Stephanie Broussaud | .... | Lustre assistant | |
| Alain Carsoux | .... | visual effects director | |
| Nicolas Daniel | .... | Lustre assistant | |
| Nicolas Daniel | .... | video operator: Duboi | |
| Thierry Delobel | .... | visual effects supervisor | |
| Séverine De Wever | .... | visual effects coordinator | |
| Geoffroy Givry | .... | digital compositor | |
| Pierre Gosset | .... | senior compositor | |
| Élodie Ichter | .... | Lustre assistant | |
| Wulff Jeremy | .... | digital compositor | |
| Abdel Ali Kassou | .... | I/O manager | |
| Abdel Ali Kassou | .... | imaging manager | |
| Nicolas Kermel | .... | digital artist | |
| Emmanuel Le Courbe | .... | digital compositor | |
| Guillaume Le Gouez | .... | digital compositor | |
| Benoit Philippon | .... | digital effects artist | |
| Cyril Pichard | .... | research & development | |
| Joel Pinto | .... | digital compositor | |
| Sebastien Rame | .... | digital compositor | |
| Olivier Ryard | .... | digital compositor | |
| Rossi Sébastien | .... | visual effects | |
Département Casting | |||
| Anne Barbier | .... | extras casting | |
| Audrey Ciais | .... | casting assistant | |
| Marie de Laubier | .... | casting: children | |
Département Costume et garde-Robe | |||
| Nathalie Chesnais | .... | costume supervisor | |
Dpartement Editorial | |||
| Basile Belkhiri | .... | avid technician: Digital Factory | |
| Caroline Dulac | .... | assistant editor | |
| Celia Simonnet | .... | post-production assistant | |
| Sidonie Waserman | .... | post-production coordinator | |
Département Musique | |||
| Jérôme Lateur | .... | music supervisor | |
| Vincent Lebegue | .... | music legal coordinator | |
| Elise Luguern | .... | music production supervisor | |
| Bruno Mercere | .... | music recording mixer | |
| Mehdi Sayah | .... | assistant music supervisor | |
Divers | |||
| Virginie Audouard | .... | production assistant | |
| Pascaline Buthon | .... | production assistant | |
| Barbara Constantine | .... | script supervisor | |
| Maxime Delauney | .... | set production assistant | |
| Laure Flammarion | .... | production assistant | |
| Jean-Baptiste Jay | .... | remote head technician | |
| Lilas Saadat | .... | assistant location manager: Renfort | |
| Harmel Sbraire | .... | acting coach: children | |
| Harmel Sbraire | .... | coach: children | |
| Vincent Vesco | .... | location manager | |
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I saw the film when returning on a long-distance flight with Air France - the on-board video-system was all f**ked although the plane was the same as the outgoing KLM flight which had a nice video-on-demand system - well, when will AF stop to disappoint their customers? Anyway, the system didn't help and I only saw the flick because there was time to kill and nothing else to see. So much to the not very intriguing title ... well, Gerard Depardieu's taking part also helped in selecting the film. The story unravels around the relationship between an Algerian boy and his fostering mother - a rather simple woman from a small village. The film gives some background on the politics of the time - depressing and suppressing - and goes on to show how brave minds (the mother, the school teacher, maybe also the priest), although they knew about the boy's origin, gave him shelter and security. There is even a hint at the situation of the Jews in WW2 France. It also shows how men in general are apt to follow irrational and inhuman beliefs and kindle hatred. Even the boys at school call Michel a 'wog' (probably 'pied noire' could partly only see the subtitled version without sound) and bash him for this. The really funny parts are very subtle, for instance the school teacher's giving the fostering mother a copy of Camus' 'L'etranger'. Also Depardieu exercising spelling with the boy over a French militarist text on Indochinese war or saluting to the De Gaulle speech on the Algerian crisis (including making the boy salute along). The film also takes a blow at French hypocrisy - i.e. celebrating victory over German in WW2 but hardly ever having a look at all the French collaborators and Vichy France, incl. delivering Jews to the Nazis. May 68 took place in France for good reasons: reacting to a repressive and aggressive climate which started the 'Algerian War' and grudgingly then had to accept the defeat. Gilou sets the unfathomable trust of the boy in his fostering parents in contrast to this and thus shows how relying on simple human relations minus the lies of ideologies and religions can make the world a so much better place.