A young couple finds themselves in a very serious financial predicament. The man is jobless and spends his days wandering through the streets with hardly enough in his pockets to buy a little something to eat.
Due to his extreme weakness, he happens to faint one day in front of a shop window. It's thus that he meets the shop owner, an old man who offers him a job. His work consists in sitting all day long to guard the door to a small room at the back of the corridor which contains objects of value sought after by thieves.
But the very reality of said thieves' existence becomes more and more dubious. Is this then some swindle on the part of the old shopkeeper? A whim? Or a painful initiation to the revelation of a world beyond reality?
Alain Gagnol
Jean-Loup Felicioli
Categoryshort films
Length17 min 18 sec
Publicadults
ProductionFolimage, Studio Film Bilder, Arte France
Prix Festivals :
- Grand Prix, Rencontres Internationales du cinéma d'animation, Wissembourg 2005
- Prix du Jury du court noir, Festival Polar dans la ville, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines 2006
- Mention Spéciale du Jury, Festival Animafest, Zagreb 2006
- Special Prize, Festival d'Hiroshima 2006
- Prix du meilleur court métrage, Festival Cinanima Espinho 2006
drawings on paper
Genre(s)drama
Theme(s)madness
French visa number106 340
Processcouleur
Available print(s)35mm, DVD
Available version(s)French version, French version with English subtitles
Image ratio (theaters)1:66
SoundDolby SR
HDnon
Dialoguesoui
Year of production2005
Jacques-Rémy Girerd, Patrick Eveno
AnimationAlain Gagnol, Sylvie Léonard
DecorsJean-Loup Felicioli
CompositingPatrick Tallaron
MusicSpencer Williams " Basin street blues " interprété par / played by Louis Armstrong
SoundLoïc Burkhardt
EditingHervé Guichard
Voice(s)Christian Taponard, Gilles Morel, Karen Stassman
