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RUNTIME
Did you know
Tight 5-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Cast
Stéphanie Tchou-Cotta
Yannick Debain
Guillaume Depardieu
Fabrice Josso
Thomas Langmann
Olivier Martinez
François Négret
Sébastien Roch
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Étienne Faure
- Writers
- Étienne Faure, Yann Saint-Pé
- Languages
- French
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Fun facts 🍿
Cinephile deep dive
The take
Étienne Faure directs. Jacques Meynard behind the camera. Denis Coq cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Dialogue in French.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 5-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 235 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Directed by Étienne Faure, shot by Jacques Meynard. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 5Editor Denis Coq shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 6Stéphanie Tchou-Cotta and Yannick Debain and Guillaume Depardieu carry the top of the cast.
- 7IMDB entry: tt0424343 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 8Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Jacques Meynard
- Editing
- Denis Coq
- Runtime
- 5 min · 0h 5m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- FR
Also by
Étienne Faure
Key crew
- Executive ProducerMartine Julien
- ProducerYann Moaligou
- MusicMarc de Filippo
- EditorDenis Coq
Release history · US
When it landed
- Premiere1991-09-01
