The Door of No Return ( La puerta de no retorno )

The Door of No Return (DVD) (*)

~~$20.99~~ $14.97

Original Title: La puerta de no retorno
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
70 min + 40 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Santiago Zannou

Written By:
Santiago Zannou

Actors:
Alphonse Zannou

Synopsis:

Alphonse is a 70 years old man, born and raised in Benin, left his country and his people with the promise to come back home... But he never did. For the past 40 years he has been living in Madrid, selling little playthings at the market. When Alphonse receives the news that his sister Veronique is ill, it seems to him that time has past too long and that he has to go and see her. Half a life later, Alphonse decides to travel back to Benin. Alphonse will have to face the past and the present of his homeland. He will have to talk and explain 40 years of silence, shame and disillusion. To his sister who has been waiting for him, also to his mother, who died without seeing him back. He knows that time has come to face all the questions he could not or did not want to answer for more than three decades.

The door of no return is a journey from north to south and south to north, from the present to the past, from here to beyond. An adventure back to the starting point. An open reflection about all the questions arising from the personal conflict of a man divided by the emigrant who has gone and the immigrant who has never returned. It is the unique and universal story of Alphonse Zannou.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 09 April, 2012.

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