Le Havre
Le Havre (2011)
Timing:
1:34 (94 min)
7.013/10
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Production
Genre
Drama, Comedy
Budget
$3 850 000
Revenue
$4 230 854
Website
Director
Actors
André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel, Elina Salo, Evelyne Didi, Quoc Dung Nguyen, Laïka, François Monnié, Roberto Piazza
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Aki Kaurismäki, Hanna Hemilä
Operator
Timo Salminen
Composer
Artist
Audition
Gilles Charmant
Editing
Timo Linnasalo
All team (24)
All team (24)
Short description
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the tireless support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials pursuing the boy for deportation.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film's director, Aki Kaurismäki, believed that a similar story could have happened in almost any European country. In search of a suitable location for filming, he drove along the coast of almost all of Western Europe from Genoa to the Netherlands, eventually choosing Le Havre.
- "Le Havre" is the first film by Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki in French. At the same time, he had already filmed in France before. Two decades earlier, the shooting of the film "La Vie de Bohème" (1992) took place there.
- A Finnish film fund covered a fifth of the film's budget.
- The idea for the film originated with the director three years before the start of direct work on the project. The screenplay was written in the summer of 2009, and filming took place from March 23 to May 12, 2010.
- The film 'Le Havre' marked Kati Outinen’s tenth acting role in Aki Kaurismäki’s films. She first appeared in one of his films in 1987 in the comedy 'Hamlet Goes Business'.
- The character of Marcel Marx received his surname in honor of Karl Marx. His wife Arletty and the doctor Becker were named after icons of French cinema, Arletty and Jacques Becker.
- Director Aki Kaurismäki is a big fan of strong drinks. During filming, he devised a rule for the actors and crew: after every hundred frames, everyone was entitled to a glass of Calvados, a popular apple brandy in the area.
- In 2012, Finland submitted this film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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