Back to Square One ( Case départ ) ( Back to Square 1 )

Back to Square One (DVD) (*)

$56.99

Original Title: Case départ
Alternate Title: Back to Square 1
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby DTS 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Music Video
Scene Access
Teaser(s)

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Lionel Steketee

Written By:
Jérôme L'hotsky
Fabrice Eboué

Actors:
Fabrice Eboué ..... Régis Grosdésir
Thomas N'Gijol ..... Joël Grosdésir
Stefi Celma ..... Rosalie
Eriq Ebouaney ..... Isidore
Etienne Chicot ..... M. Jourdain
Catherine Hosmalin ..... Mme Jourdain
David Salles ..... M. Henri
Franck de la Personne ..... Le curé
Joséphine de Meaux ..... Joséphine Jourdain
Franck Migeon ..... Le gendre
Max Baissette de Malglaive ..... Victor Jourdain
Alain Fromager ..... Le premier chasseur d'esclaves
Sylvain Tempier ..... Le second chasseur d'esclaves
Michel Crémadès ..... Isaac
Isabel del Carmen Solar Montalvo ..... La vieille tante

Synopsis:

CASE DÉPART (Back to Square One), an explosive comedy about slavery, follows two half brothers: Joel (Thomas Ngijol) and Regis (Fabrice Eboué) who, called at their father's deathbed in the Antilles, receive as sole inheritance the emancipation act that freed their slave ancestors. Not caring much about the document's symbolic value, they tear it up. As punishment for this act, a mysterious aunt decides to send them back in time to experience slavery. Catapulted to 1780, they're sold on the slave market. The 2 brothers will have to join forces, not only to flee the plantation, but to find a way to get back home to the 21st century.

Joël (Thomas N'Gijol) has just been released from jail and is an opportunist and abusive colored guy. On the other hand his mulatto half-brother Régis (Fabrice éboué) is the major´s obsequious assistant and likes to mistreat the persons asking for his help. Both brothers randomly meet in the Antilles because their father is about to die and wants to tell them about a heritage… which happens to be the slavery emancipation certificate of one of their forefathers, which is torn by both rowdies. Offended by the behaviour of these guys, one of their aunts sends them to the past so that they will be sold as slaves and both will experience this kind of hardships. From then on an adventure will begin, making them change the way they live and how they conceive the world. Joël will show that he is a rebel and is sent to cut sugarcane in the fields and Régis will remain being servile, because his white half guarantees him menial tasks inside the kitchen. Being an intelligent slave that can read is no help when one questions the priest (Franck de la Personne) and makes fun of the foreman Henri (David Salles), and the whip is the remedy for such behaviour. When both brothers flee and are captured by the fugitive Cimarrons, who christen Joël as Polydor and Régis decides to call himself Jean Moulin (the man that unified Resistance in the 2nd. World War), solidarity is not granted when Régis utters that it is exaggerated to kill all white people. Nobody remains safe and sound of jokes in this film: the planter Jourdain (éttiene Chicot) is a cunning guy and the cleverest of them all as well as merciless when he needs to be, his wife (Catherine Hosmalin)is frivolous and superficial; their blind daughter, Joséphine (Joséphine de Meaux) has a fine smell for Negros and is despotic, her fiancé (Franck Migeon) is a pretentious bum, and the priest (Franck de la Personne) is a dumb guy who knows nothing about his own religion. The only positive character is the youngest of them all: Victor (Max Baissette de Malglive). What remains certain is that the brothers will be strengthened by this experience: Joël will get a job in construction and Régis will demand the major to be serious. But their daughters will provoke a catastrophe again…

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 23 March, 2012.

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