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FILM FORUM ZADAR 2011 | INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | MAIN PROGRAMME: THE HARBOR (LE HAVRE) / LOVERBOY | ZADAR | FORUM | SUNDAY, AUGUST 28th, 2011 | FREE ENTRANCE

 

 

THE HARBOR / LE HAVRE

ZADAR | FORUM | AUGUST 28th, 2011 | 8:30 PM

 

Original title: Le Havre (2011)

Duration: 93 min.

Country: France

Language: French

Director: Aki Kaurismaki

Producer: Pandora Films, Sputnik, Pyramide Productions

 

Cast: Andre Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel, Elina Salo, Evelyne Didi, Quoc-Dung Nguyen, Laika, Francois Monnie, Roberto Piazza, Pierre Etaix, Jean-Pierre Leaud

 

Synopsis:

Marcel Marx, a former author, 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 profi table, 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 indiff erence 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.

 

About the director:

Aki Kaurismaki was born April 4, 1957. He is a writer, a director, an editor and a producer.

 

Selected Filmography:

Crime and Punishment (1983)

Calamari Union (1985)

Shadows in Paradise (1986)

Hamlet Goes Business (1987)

Ariel (1988)

Likaiset kadet (Les mains sales-1989)

(production for Finnish TV)

Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)

The Match Factory Girl (1990)

I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)

La Vie de Boheme (1992)

Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994)

Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994)

Drifting Clouds (1996)

Juha (1999)

The Man Without a Past (2002)

Lights in the Dusk (2006)

Le Havre (2011)

 

 

 

 

LOVERBOY

ZADAR | FORUM | AUGUST 28th, 2011 | 10:30 PM

 

Original title: Loverboy (2011)

Duration: 94 min.

Country: Romania, Sweden, Serbia

Language: Romanian

Director: Catalin Mitulescu

Producers: Daniel Mitulescu, Catalin Mitulescu, Marcian Lazar

Co - producers: Fredrik Zander, Tomas Eskilsson

Cast: George Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu, Ion Besoiu, Clara Voda, Bogdan Dumitrache, Coca Bloos, Remus Marginean, Alexandru Mititelu, Adina Galupa

 

Synopsis:

Luca (20) seduces girls, then trades them to his friends at the Black Sea port of Constanta. When he meets the charming Veli, Luca falls in love. It’s summer down the Danube river. The music is loud, the cars are fancy and the girls are tanned. Veli runs away from home to Luca’s bed. First love has never felt more dangerous.

 

About the director:

Catalin Mitulescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1972. He studied geology in Bucharest, and after that spent a couple of years living and travelling through Austria, Hungary, Poland and Italy. In 1996, he returned to Romania to study film directing. He graduated in 2001. He directed award - winning short films such as "Bucharest - Wien", "17 minutes late", and "Traffi c". In 2004, Catalin founded the film production company Strada Film, which has become over the years one of the leading production companies on the Romanian film market.

 

Filmography:

The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)

Loverboy (2011)

 

 

 

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