Sauvons les apparences
Salviamo le apparenze!
Switzerland / France, April 2008
FILM,
Fiction,
88 min.
- directed by
- Nicole Borgeat
- Written by
- Nicole Borgeat, Denis Rabaglia, Marianne Brun
- Status
- In distribution
After his mother has an accident, obese Julien (14) is taken in by his uncle’s family in Switzerland. The family, who to all appearances are totally “normal”, make Julien’s nutrition and well-being their highest priority. But then Julien falls in love with Keiko, a young Japanese girl. In order to seduce her he pretends to be a Sumo-champion but soon finds himself in a quandary: he needs to lose weight for his new family, but he needs to gain weight if he is going to take part in the Sumo training and seduce Keiko. Bit by bit Julien’s lies start to crumble and it becomes very apparent that the other protagonists’ notion of normality is very relative…
credits
- World Premiere
- April 2008
- Original Version
- French, colour, Digital HD, 88 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0001-F962-0000-E
- Production
- Point Prod, 13 production, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
- Producer
- Jean-Marc Fröhle
- directed by
- Nicole Borgeat
- Written by
- Nicole Borgeat, Denis Rabaglia, Marianne Brun
- Cinematography
- Hans Meier
- Editing
- Orsola Valenti
- Re-Recording Mix
- Edgard Biondina
- Music
- Grégoire Hetzel
- Location Sound Mix
- Henri Maïkoff
- Production Design
- Fabrizio Nicora
- Lighting Design
- Olivier Pilorget
- Costumes
- Erica Loup
- Casting
- Anne de Réparaz
Cast
Agnès Soral
Wladimir Yordanoff
Pierre Salandre
Xing Li
Ingrid Juveneton
Alice Langlois
Thierry Jorand
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Point Prod
Festivals
(a selection)
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Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
19.01.2009 - 25.01.2009 -
Genève, 14e Cinéma Tous Ecrans – Festival international du cinéma et de télévision
27.10.2008 - 02.11.2008 -
4e Grand prix européen des premiers films
11.09.2008 - 30.09.2008