Mammuth
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Benoît Delépine
Gerard Depardieu
Yolande Moreau
Isabelle Adjani
Benoît Poelvoorde
Candy Ming
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
As he turns 60, a working-class man takes his retirement. Hard at work since the age of 16, he has never missed a day, never gone sick. When he tries to claim his well-deserved retirement pension, he runs into the implacable wall of bureaucracy. It turns out that several of his former employers have "forgotten" to declare his earnings. To receive full benefits, his only solution is to go back to them and gather the missing affidavits. Encouraged by his wife, our hero mounts his old motorcycle from the 70s, a Mammuth which gave him his nickname. He returns to the places of his youth, a journey that brings him back into company with former employers, friends, and long-lost family members. On the road, he comes to realize that people have always considered him an uncultivated imbecile. Submerged in doubt, haunted by ghostly appearances of Yasmine, his first love lost in a dramatic motorcycle accident, his quest to recuperate the missing papers, little by little, becomes futile. Salvation comes to him from his young niece, who awakens the happy poet that lies dormant inside him. Instead of aging slowly towards death, Mammuth decides to embrace life with a new beginning.
Cast
Gerard Depardieu
Yolande Moreau
Isabelle Adjani
Benoît Poelvoorde
Candy Ming
Philippe Nahon
Bouli Lanners
Dick Annegarn
Crew
Paul Chapelle
Benoît Delépine
Stephane Elmadjian
Jean-pierre Guerin
Gustave Kervern
Florence Laforge
Guillaume Le Braz
Hugues Poulain
Gaetan Roussel
Christophe Valette
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Limited Release in United States Fall September 30, 2011
Released in United States February 2010
Released in United States 2011
Limited Release in United States Fall September 30, 2011 (New York City)
Released in United States February 2010 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Competition) February 11-21, 2010.)
Released in United States 2011 (World Cinema Now)
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Competition) February 11-21, 2010.
Released in United States 2011 (Contemporary World Cinema)
