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Dheepan
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
2015 · Directed by Jacques Audiard · 115 min · Crime · Drama · 8 frames
Tagline
When the war continues to rage in your heart and mind
Crew
- Screenplay: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Noé Debré
- Cinematography: Éponine Momenceau
- Edited by: Juliette Welfling
- Music: Nicolas Jaar
- Production design: Michel Barthélémy
- Produced by: Pascal Caucheteux, Jacques Audiard
Cast
- Antonythasan Jesuthasan as Dheepan
- Kalieaswari Srinivasan as Yalini
- Claudine Vinasithamby as Illayaal
- Vincent Rottiers as Brahim
- Marc Zinga as Youssouf
- Faouzi Bensaïdi as Monsieur Habib
- Bass Dhem as Azziz
- Franck Falise as Hall C Guard
- Joséphine de Meaux as School Principal
- Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux as The Lawyer
Production
- Country: France
- Language: Arabic, English, French, Tamil
- Studios: France 2 Cinéma, Why Not Productions, Page 114
- Box office: $7,704,357
- Themes: paris, france, freedom fighter, sri lanka, social realism, drug gang, war refugees, dangerous neighborhood
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