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Aaltra (DVD) (*)

$29.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Deleted Scenes
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Black & White

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Gustave de Kervern
Benoît Delépine

Written By:
Benoît Delépine
Gustave de Kervern

Actors:
Benoît Delépine ..... L'employé
Gustave de Kervern ..... L'ouvrier agricole (as Gustave K/Vern)
Michel de Gavre ..... Le paysan
Gérard Condejean ..... Le Chinois
Isabelle Delépine ..... L'épouse
Pierre Ghenassia ..... Le patron
Fred Martin ..... Le collègue
Jan Bucquoy ..... L'amant
Pierre Carles ..... Le médecine
Céline Normand ..... Infirmière
Martine Peigné ..... Infirmière
Carine Liénard ..... Infirmière
Nathalie Carpentier ..... Infirmière
Dada Avrel ..... Le kiné
Jean-Michel Carlier ..... Ambulancier bavard

Synopsis:

Ben and Gus, one a farmer and the other a commuter, are neighbours in a small Belgian village, but they cannot stand each other. In addition, both are unhappy with their lives. A coincidence leads to a fight and an accident on an agricultural machine. In the hospital, they both turn out to be paralysed from the waist down and have to spend the rest of their lives in wheelchairs. They reject the possibility of suicide and, instead, undertake a strange journey to Finland, to find the manufacturer of the agricultural equipment that caused their handicap. During their journey, the relationship between the two fighting cocks and their view of life changes.

Mr Vives is not fond of the lazy farmer's hand who keeps blocking the road with his large harvester, so he gets back at him, and the farmer's hand gets back at Mr Vives, and round and round it goes. Until one day, when this causes Mr Vives to lose his job and come back early to discover his wife in bed with another man. Furious, he drives up to the farm hand in the middle of a field and starts a fist fight which ends in the harvester. They wake up together at the hospital, both with useless legs. It seems they're doomed to stay together from now on.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 07 February, 2008.