La fuite de Monsieur Monde

France / Belgium, May 2004
FILM, Fiction, 90 min.

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directed by
Claude Goretta
Written by
Claude Goretta, Jacques Santamaria
Status
In distribution

Monsieur Monde manages an important transport company and leads a simple, regulated, quiet and rather uneventful life. Then, on his 48th birthday, without any warning, he gives it all up, packs his bags and gets on the first train to Marseille. On arrival, he wanders around helplessly until he meets a girl who changes his view of life completely. A sensitive film, taken from the eponymous novel by Georges Simenon, about a theme that continues to be current: what propels some people to leave the everyday behind and throw themselves into life, headfirst?

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World Premiere
May 2004
Original Version
French,  colour, Beta SP, 90 min.
Production
Téléscope audiovisuel (TVF1), RTL/TV1, Mars Entertainment
Producer
directed by
Claude Goretta
Written by
Claude Goretta, Jacques Santamaria (based on a novel by Georges Simenon)
Cinemato­graphy
Laurence Brenguier
Editing
Catherine Merlgen-Sieber
Music
Marc Marder
Location Sound Mix
Jean-Louis Richet

Cast

Bernard Le Coq
Nathalie Nell
Sylvie Milhaud
Didier Cauchy
Frédéric Perrot

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Téléscope audiovisuel (TVF1)

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