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ORIGINAL TITLE

Silk

YEAR

2007	Apple Trailer

RUNNING TIME

110 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

François Girard

SCREENWRITER

François Girard, Michael Golding (Novel: Alessandro Baricco)

COMPOSER

Ryuichi Sakamoto

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Alain Dostie

CAST

Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho, Alfred Molina, Kenneth Welsh, Sei Ashina, Miki Nakatani

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Co-production Canada / Italy / Japan; Rhombus Media / Fandango / Bee Vine Pictures

OFFICIAL WEB

http://www.silkmovie.com/

GENRE

Romance. Drama | Costume Drama. The 19th Century

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

Based on the number one international bestselling novel by Alessandro Baricco, Silk is a sweeping romantic drama woven around a material of ethereal fragility: silkworm eggs. When the pébrine epidemic--the spotted silkworm disease that ravaged eggs from European hatcheries in the 1860s--spread overseas, eggs from as far away as Africa and India became infected; thus, the entire European silk trade seemed doomed. To continue his lucrative trade, Baldabiou--a roguish French trader--decides to send young military officer Herve Joncour on a perilous mission to Japan, separating Herve for months on end from Helene, his lovely and devoted schoolteacher wife. Prior to the opening of the Suez Canal, Japan produced the finest silk in the world for thousands of years and was considered a dominion forbidden to foreigners--quite literally the opposite end of the world. It is here that Herve encounters the powerful and feared local baron, Hara Jubei, with whom he will trade for the precious silkworm eggs. And it is here, in a world unlike anything that Herve has experienced before, that he becomes entranced by the baron's concubine, a deeply mysterious girl of intoxicating beauty. Without speaking one another's language, they share a doomed, obsessive love. A film of painterly beauty and ravishing romance, Silk is a historically rapturous epic romance of east meets west.

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