Hell

2005 1h 38m FR

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6.1

MID

★6.1TMDB · 45

Drama

Synopsis

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Three sisters who share a connection to a violent childhood incident reunite for the chance to come to terms with their past.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Emmanuelle Béart
Sophie
Karin Viard
Céline
Marie Gillain
Anne
Guillaume Canet
Sébastien
Jacques Gamblin
Pierre
Jacques Perrin
Frédéric
Carole Bouquet
Marie, la mère
Predrag 'Miki' Manojlović
Antoin, le père

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Danis Tanović
Writers: Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Languages: French
Countries: France, Italy, Belgium, Japan

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ERA

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Released 21 years ago.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 4 countries: France, Italy, Belgium, Japan.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Heaven, Hell and Purgatory Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Danis Tanović, shot by Laurent Dailland. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Francesca Calvelli shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Emmanuelle Béart and Karin Viard and Marie Gillain carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0430224 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 45 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Danis Tanović directs. Laurent Dailland behind the camera. Francesca Calvelli cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in France, Italy, Belgium, Japan. Dialogue in French.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 21 years ago.
2International production across 4 countries: France, Italy, Belgium, Japan.
3Part of the "Heaven, Hell and Purgatory Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Danis Tanović, shot by Laurent Dailland. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Editor Francesca Calvelli shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Emmanuelle Béart and Karin Viard and Marie Gillain carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt0430224 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 45 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Laurent Dailland
Editing: Francesca Calvelli
Production design: Aline Bonetto
Makeup / hair: Laurence Azouvy
Sound: Vincent Cosson
Runtime: 98 min · 1h 38m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $595,618
Original language: FR
IMDB: Hell (2005)

Part of

Heaven, Hell and Purgatory Collection

Krzysztof Kieslowski trilogy co-written with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, consisting of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory and inspired by Dante's The Divine Comedy. As was originally intended for the Decalogue, the scripts were ostensibly intended to be given to other directors for filming, but Kieślowski's untimely death means it is unknown whether he might have broken his self-imposed retirement to direct the trilogy himself. The only completed screenplay, Heaven, was filmed by Tom Tykwer and released in 2002. The other two scripts existed only as thirty-page treatments at the time of Kieślowski's death; Piesiewicz has since completed these screenplays. Hell (2005): Directed by Bosnian director Danis Tanović and starring Emmanuelle Béart. Purgatory, which is about a photographer killed in the Bosnian war, remains unproduced. Hope (2007): Directored by Ibo Kurdo and Stanislaw Mucha, this may be considered the third part of this trilogy.