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Ceasefire

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Original title

Cessez-le-feu

Year

2016

Running time

103 min.

Country

France

Director

Emmanuel Courcol

Screenwriter

Emmanuel Courcol

Cast

Music

Jérôme Lemonnier

Cinematography

Yann Maritaud, Tom Stern

Producer

Co-production France-Belgium;

Polaris Film Production & Finance, Fontana, Umedia

Genre

Drama | 1920s

Synopsis

In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the company of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War. From village to village, Georges uses Diofo's talents as a griot to recruit the villagers as labour for plantations in Ghana. But this adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Nantes where his brother Marcel, a war invalid, lives with their mother's. After the war in Europe, life went on without him. Georges will desperately try to find his place, with the help of Helene, a sign language teacher with whom he will have a tumultuous relationship, and his family, that he selfishly left behind. He will finally attempt to heal their wounds, and his.

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Ceasefire

2016

Emmanuel Courcol

5.5

(235)