BABYLON A.D.
synopsis
The tribulations of mercenary and loner Hugo Cornelius Toorop. Accepting to escort Aurora from Eastern Europe to New York for a Mafia job, Toorop discovers that the young woman is being used as a guinea pig by researchers. She turns out to be the object of multiple and dangerous interests, as she carries a virus that is capable of wiping out the entire human race. Criminal networks aiming at new biotechnological markets and post-millenarian sects who dream of genetically creating a new Messiah set out on their trail.
An adaptation Maurice G. Dantec’s novel Babylon Babies.
original title: | Babylon A.D. |
country: | France, United States, Czech Republic |
sales agent: | StudioCanal, 20th Century Fox (US) |
year: | 2008 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Mathieu Kassovitz |
release date: | FR 20/08/2008, BE 27/08/2008, UK 29/08/2008, PT 04/09/2008, AT 11/09/2008, DE 11/09/2008, ES 19/09/2008, NL 25/09/2008, FI 03/10/2008, IT 03/08/2008, NO 03/10/2008, RO 20/03/2009 |
screenplay: | Eric Besnard, Mathieu Kassovitz |
cast: | Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Gérard Depardieu, Mark Strong, Jamel Debbouze, Jérôme Le Banner |
cinematography by: | Thierry Arbogast |
producer: | Alain Goldman, Mathieu Kassovitz |
production: | MNP Entreprise, M6 Films, Okko Production, 20th Century Fox (US) |
distributor: | StudioCanal |