L' Apprenti
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Samuel Collardey
Mathieu Bulle
Paul Barbier
Samuel Collardey
Samuel Collardey
Gregoire Debailly
Film Details
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Synopsis
Fifteen-year-old Mathieu lives with his worker mother, who is separated from an unreliable husband who is practically absent from the boy's life. Mathieu is a student in a farming institute and he goes to a farm in the High Doubs, in eastern France, to do his apprenticeship. Studies and work soon become interlinked via the relationship the boy develops with Paul, the old owner of the farm, who acts as his tutor and in whom he finds the paternal figure he has always needed. For Mathieu, the apprenticeship therefore turns out to be an opportunity to take a look at himself and the experiences of his own family.
Director
Samuel Collardey
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Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the International Critics' Week Award for Best Film and a recipient of the Doc/it Award - Sicilia Film Commission Special Mention at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival.
Released in France December 3, 2008
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Bright Future) January 21-February 1, 2009.
Shown at SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival (Silver Spectrum) June 15-22, 2009.
Shown at Venice International Film Festival (International Critics' Week) August 27-September 6, 2008.
color
dialogue French
Released in France December 3, 2008
