MACHAN
synopsis
Colombo, Sri Lanka. A group of desperate slum dwellers, living on the margins of society under impossible pressures, find an invitation to a handball tournament in Bavaria to be the answer to their prayers, a one way ticket to the West and the wealth that will solve all their problems.
| original title: | Machan |
| country: | Italy, Germany, Sri Lanka |
| sales agent: | Beta Cinema |
| year: | 2008 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Uberto Pasolini |
| film run: | 110' |
| release date: | IT 12/09/2008, DE 07/05/2009, FR 19/08/2009 |
| screenplay: | Ruwanthie de Chickera, Uberto Pasolini |
| cast: | Dharmapriya Dias, Gihan de Chickera, Dharshan Dharmaraj, Namal Jayasinghe, Sujeewa Priyalal, Dayadewa Edirisinghe |
| cinematography by: | Stefano Falivene |
| film editing: | Masahiro Hirakubo |
| music: | Lakshman Joseph De Saram, Stephen |
| producer: | Prasanna Vithanage, Conchita Airoldi, Uberto Pasolini |
| production: | Urania Pictures, Studio Babelsberg, Shakthi Film (LK) |
| backing: | Rai Cinema, Redwave Films, Shakthi Films, Media i2i, 20th Century Fox Germany, Eurimages |
| distributor: | Mikado, Fox (DE), UGC Ph (FR) |
