La Faute a Voltaire
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Abdellatif Kechiche
Sami Bouajila
Elodie Bouchez
Bruno Lochet
Aure Atika
Virginie Darmon
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
27-year-old Tunisian Jallel is in a police station in the centre of Paris, where he has arrived as a clandestine immigrant. Using a false passport, he begins his adventure as a vagabond. He has no illusions and not so many hopes either. He tries to survive by selling fruit in the underground tunnel of the Metro and he could solve his problem by marrying unmarried mother Nassera, but the deal falls through at the last moment... Struck down by depression, he ends up in an emergency ward for mental cases. Then, just as his ordeals appear to be giving this 21st century Candide some respite, offering him at last some true peace and friendship, destiny brings Jallel up against the hard reality of what he has been able to escape so far: the law.
Director
Abdellatif Kechiche
Cast
Sami Bouajila
Elodie Bouchez
Bruno Lochet
Aure Atika
Virginie Darmon
Olivier Loustau
Fancois Genty
Sami Zitouni
Carole Franck
Crew
Annick Baly
Tina Baz-le Gal
Dominique Brenguier
Dominique Brenguier
Catherine D'halluin
Abdellatif Kechiche
Jean-francois Lepetit
Quentin Prevost
Marie-emanuelle Spencer
Marie-emanuelle Spencer
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the De Laurentis Prize for Best First Film at the 2000 Venice International Film Festival.
Released in United States 2000
Released in United States 2001
Released in United States 2010
Shown at Venice International Film Festival (Critics Week/ in competition) August 30 - September 9, 2000.
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Main Programme Features) January 24 - February 24, 2001.
Shown at New Directors/New Films in New York City March 23 - April 8, 2001.
Shown at New Directors/New Films Series at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (Classics) March 24-April 4, 2010.
Released in United States 2000 (Shown at Venice International Film Festival (Critics Week/ in competition) August 30 - September 9, 2000.)
Released in United States 2001 (Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Main Programme Features) January 24 - February 24, 2001.)
Released in United States 2001 (Shown at New Directors/New Films in New York City March 23 - April 8, 2001.)
Released in United States 2010 (Shown at New Directors/New Films Series at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (Classics) March 24-April 4, 2010.)
