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| Title: | BABYLONE |
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| Title year: | 1989 |
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| Original dialogue(s): | French |
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| Description: | After a reversal of fortune, Anna and Robert move into a trailer with their two children, Bruno, aged 16, and Marco, aged 7. Inveterate gambler and drunkard, Robert loses the trailer in a bet. Refusing to leave the only refuge that remains to her, Anna accidentally kills Robert in a fight. Bruno, who tried to intervene, confesses to the murder to cover up for his mother. One year later, he runs away from the halfway house where he had been transferred. Nothing can stop him, not even his young friend Nadine. He has but one single obsession: get his family back. The shock is violent. His mother is living with a stolen car fence and his little brother Marco was given to an adoptive family. Bruno goes to look for him. While Marco's adoptive parents are momentarily distracted, Bruno kidnaps Marco and flees in a stolen car. Marco soon slips into a diabetic coma. Bruno takes him for dead, but the police are on their heels and will save him. Alone with no family, Bruno finally realizes that Nadine is still there for him. |
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| Director(s): | Manu Bonmariage | |
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| Screen writer(s): | Luc Jabon | |
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| Manu Bonmariage | |
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| Actor(s): | Frédéric Deban | | |
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| Charlotte Laurier | | |
| Marie Tifo | | |
| Rafaél Sanchez | | |
| Christian Crahay | | |
| Pierre Curzi | | |
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| Producer(s): | Jacqueline Pierreux | |
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| Jean-Roch Marcotte | |
| Executive producers(s): | Marguerite Bavaud | |
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| Editor(s): | Denise Vindevogel | |
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| Musician(s): | Yves Laferrière | |
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| Photography: | Éric Cayla | |
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| Support: | 35mm Col Kodak 5297 |
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| Release: | Montréal (Desjardins 1, Carrefour Laval 2) | May 18, 1990 |
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| Co-finance: | Country production | 26 |
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| Location(s): | Brussels (Belgium) |
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| Laboratory: | Meuter-Titra (Brussels) |
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