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THE ODYSSEY

by Jérôme Salle

synopsis

Based on Capitaine de la Calypso by Albert Falco and Yves Paccalet, and My Father, The Captain by Jean-Michel Cousteau, the story kicks off in summer 1946. Jacques Cousteau takes his son, Philippe, by the hand and leads him into the warm waters of the Mediterranean. Thanks to a little diving suit tailor-made just for him, the child is able to breathe underwater for the first time in his life. Awe-stricken, he discovers this silent world that his father was the first to explore – this magical, magnificent world brimming with multi-coloured fauna. Ten years later, when Philippe, now a grown up, meets with his dad again on board the Calypso, he finds that his father, whom he had idolised, has truly changed. Having now become a star all around the world thanks to cinema and television, Jacques roams the planet, taking giant strides each time. He embarks upon a string of increasingly megalomaniac projects, and dreams of grafting gills onto men and building cities under the sea. Flinging himself headlong into this mad rush, Jacques is in the process of wrecking everything – primarily his family, but also this underwater world he discovered 20 years ago. A world that is beginning to be ravaged by pollution and progress...

international title: The Odyssey
original title: L'Odyssée
country: France, Belgium
sales agent: Goodfellas
year: 2016
genre: fiction
directed by: Jérôme Salle
film run: 122'
release date: FR 12/10/2016, DE 8/12/2016
screenplay: Jérôme Salle, Laurent Turner
cast: Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou, Thibault de Montalembert, Benjamin Lavernhe
cinematography by: Matias Boucard
film editing: Stan Collet
art director: Laurent Ott
music: Alexandre Desplat
producer: Marc Missonnier, Olivier Delbosc, Nathalie Gastaldo Godeau, Philippe Godeau
production: Pan Cinéma (Pan-Européenne), Curiosa Films, Moana Films, Wild Bunch Production, TF1 Studio Production, Versus Production, Fidélité Films
backing: Canal+, VOO, BE TV, OCS, TF1
distributor: Wild Bunch Distribution, DCM Film Distribution GmbH

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