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…

Press
«Robert Guédiguian returns to the highminded thriller style»
The Guardian