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Clandestins (1997)
Directed by Nicolas Wadimoff, Denis Chouinard
Drama · 1h 38m
A dark and claustrophobic film, this brutal, tragic, gut-wrenching drama is set almost totally within the confines of a ship's cargo container that is only 25 square meters in size. It is the grim story of six ill-fated refugees trying to get to Canada from a port in France. The police are in hot pursuit when the septet of strangers are stowed away in the huge metal box. The refugees -- two men, two women and two children -- are of various backgrounds including Gypsy, Russian and Arab. The first of many problems occurs when a mother and daughter arrive with no food (they lost it during a chase). The one Russian refugee, Roman, declares that they should not be allowed to board the ship, but the other three refugees allow them in. Their ordeal begins when the ship breaks down in Liverpool.
Cast
Moussa Maaskri
Simona Măicănescu
Mirosław Baka
François Papineau
Crew
- Director
- Nicolas Wadimoff, Denis Chouinard
- Writer
- Denis Chouinard, Nicolas Wadimoff
- Director of Photography
- Sylvain Brault
- Original Music Composer
- Bill Laswell
Details
- Release date
- 1997-09-05
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland
- Production
- Les Productions du Regard, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Films de la Cassine, Morgane Films