Cast : Syrus Shahidi, Serge Avédikian, Simon Abkarian, Ariane Ascaride, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
2015 / drama / original title : UNE HISTOIRE DE FOU / 140’ / Color / status : completed / General Audience / long feature-film / International collections
The very timely story of how a son from a pacifist Armenian family in Marseille in the 1980s becomes a terrorist. Set in Berlin, Marseille, Paris and Beirut it relates the moving story of a mother whose politically radicalized son accidentally injures an innocent passer-by when blowing up the Turkish ambassador’s car in Paris.
Original score by Alexandre Desplat (Academy Award nominated: Philomena, Argo, The King’s Speech, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Queen), Best Original Music César for Rust and Bones…
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Press
“Robert Guédiguian returns to the highminded thriller style”
The Guardian