FAMILLE À VENDRE
synopsis
Locating one’s elderly uncle in the States – everyone has dreamed of it, but finding one’s ancestors can take a whole life. So, what could be more normal for Baruch Pintzik, Andrew Gritsyne, Irène Uber, and Samuel Goldman than to accept the offer of a specialist agency’s services? T Resignation gives way to hope when they cross paths with Edik Letov, a young adventurer. He persuades the inhabitants of a small Ukrainian village to play, for a week, the role of the families these exiles are so desperately searching. After painstaking auditions, Edik creates an imaginary family for each of the four searchers and organizes their reunion in Golotvine…
original title: | Famille à vendre |
country: | France, Russia |
year: | 2005 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Pavel Lounguine |
film run: | 106' |
release date: | FR 25/01/2006 |
screenplay: | Guennadi Ostrovskii |
cast: | Konstantin Khabenskiy, Natalia Koliakanova, Leonid Kanevsky, Sergey Garmash, Esther Gorintin, Otto Tausig, Miglen Mirtchev, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet |
cinematography by: | Mikhail Krichtman |
film editing: | Sophie Brunet |
music: | Michel Arbatz, Roch Havet, Youval Micenmacher |
production: | CDP - Catherine Dussart Productions, ARTE France Cinéma, Onyx Films |
distributor: | Les Acacias (FR) |