Letter to the Prison ( Le chien ) ( Lettre à la prison )

Letter to the Prison (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le chien
Alternate Title: Lettre à la prison
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Italian ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
70 min + 19 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1969 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Tunisia ( Africa, Middle East )

Directed By:
Marc Scialom

Written By:
Marc Scialom

Actors:
Tahar Aïbi ..... Tahar
Marie-Christine Lefort ..... La jeune fille rencontrée par Tahar
Marie-Christine Rabedon ..... Une jeune femme
Jean-Louis Scialom ..... Un petit garçon sur la terrasse
Martine Biérent ..... La jeune fille rencontrée par Romdane
Romdane Mansour ..... Romdane, le frère de Tahar
Selim ..... Le petit garçon à la flûte
Myriam Tuil ..... L'hôtelière
Jean-Louis Dupont ..... L'assassin
Boulem Tourihg ..... Taha
Hamid Djellouli ..... Romdan

Synopsis:

Shot in 1969 between Tunis and Paris-under the watchful eye of Jean Rouch and using Chris Marker's 16mm camera-Letter to the Prison was stowed in boxes for some 40 years due to lack of funds, before finally seeing completion in 2008. Straddling the line between documentary and fiction, the film chronicles the torments of a young Tunisian immigrant to Paris who reads, in voice-over, a letter to his brother, in prison on a murder charge. Letter to the Prison's vanguard moder- nity is both compelling and evocatively contemporary.

In 1970, a young Tunisian comes to France for the first time, sent by his family to help his elder brother who has been wrongly accused of murder and imprisoned in Paris. He arrives by boat in Marseille where he meets Tunisians who are strangely different from those he knew in Tunisia ; he meets French people who seem enigmatic to him and finds a rather disturbing atmosphere that makes him doubt little by little all he thought he knew : his brother's innocence, his own innocence, his own mental integrity. A cultural and personal identity is jeopardized against the backdrop of post-colonialism society.

Filmed in 1969, but unreleased for 40 years, a film about a Tunisian who travels to France to see his brother, who has been imprisoned.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 13 June, 2015.