Code 46 ( Code Forty Six )

Code 46 (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Alternate Title: Code Forty Six
Screened, competed or awarded at:
British Independent Film Awards
European Film Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
89 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Deleted Scenes
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Michael Winterbottom

Written By:
Frank Cottrell Boyce

Actors:
Tim Robbins ..... William Geld
Togo Igawa ..... Driver
Nabil Elouahabi ..... Vendor
Samantha Morton ..... Maria Gonzales
Sarah Backhouse ..... Weather Girl
Jonathan Ibbotson ..... Boxer
Natalie Mendoza ..... Sphinx Receptionist
Om Puri ..... Bahkland
Emil Marwa ..... Mohan
Nina Fog ..... Wole
Bruno Lastra ..... Bikku
Christopher Simpson ..... Paul
Lien Nguyin ..... Singer in Nightclub
David Fahm ..... Damian Alekan
Jeanne Balibar ..... Sylvie

Synopsis:

Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have 'papeles' (papers in Spanish; words and sentences in many languages, especially Spanish, French and Chinese are mixed with English in this new world), a special travel permit issued by the totalitarian government, the 'Sphinx'. Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens - people without IDs forced to live primitive lives. William is a family man who works as a government investigator. When he is sent to Shanghai to solve a case of fake IDs, he meets a woman named Maria. Although he realizes she is behind the forgeries, he cannot help but fall completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can only last as long as his visa: 24 hours. Back home, William is obsessed with the memory of Maria. When the original investigation is inevitably re-opened a week later and William is sent back to finish the work he started, he tracks her down, only to discover she has been accused of a Code 46 violation and any further relationship is impossible.

In a near future, in a world ruled by a totalitarian government, checking of the genetic code is mandatory for any type of possible relationship between man and woman. The investigator from Seattle William travels to Shanghai to investigate the faking and stealing of special Visas (called using the Spanish word 'papeles'). The main suspect is Maria Gonzales, who works in the company Sphinx, but William falls in love for her and protects her. They have a passionate one night stand, and sooner they find that they are genetically incompatible to each other and they have violated the Code 46.

A futuristic 'Brief Encounter', a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 02 May, 2013.

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