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The Statement (Blu-Ray) (*)

$21.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
120 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
France ( France, Benelux )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Norman Jewison

Written By:
Ronald Harwood
Brian Moore

Actors:
Michael Caine ..... Pierre Brossard
Tilda Swinton ..... Annemarie Livi
Jeremy Northam ..... Colonel Roux
Alan Bates ..... Armand Bertier
Charlotte Rampling ..... Nicole
John Neville ..... Old Man
Ciarán Hinds ..... Pochon
Frank Finlay ..... Commissaire Vionnet
William Hutt ..... Le Moyne
Matt Craven ..... David Manenbaum
Noam Jenkins ..... Michael Levy
Peter Wight ..... Inspector Cholet
Malcolm Sinclair ..... Cardinal of Lyon
Colin Salmon ..... Father Patrice
David de Keyser ..... Dom André
Christian Erickson ..... Father Joseph
Dominic Gould ..... Captain Durand
Peter Hudson ..... Professor Valentin
Joseph Malerba ..... Max
Irene Palko ..... Clotilde
George Wills ..... Young Brossard
Edward Petherbridge ..... Dom Vladimir
Simon Gregor ..... Father Rozier
John Boswall ..... Father Léo
James Greene ..... Dom Olivier
Joseph Long ..... Bishop
Helen Later ..... Marianne
Jürgen Zwingel ..... SS Officer
Alain Morel ..... Milice Captain
Jorg Schnass ..... German Sergeant
Wolfgang Pissors ..... German Soldier
Benjamin Euvrard ..... Photographer
Catherine Van Hecke ..... Mme Vionnet
Annette Milsom ..... Sister Dominique
Edward Hamilton-Clark ..... Father Thiers
Shelly De Vito ..... Forensics Officer
Thierry Obaïka ..... Legal Clerk
Daniel Lundh ..... Bertier's Secretary
Renaud Calvet ..... Bartender Montana
Frédéric Pellegeay ..... Janitor
Jean-Jacques Boullay ..... Manservant
Jérémie Covillault ..... Interrogation Officer
Michael Berreby ..... Dombey Victim
Christophe Deslandes ..... Dombey Victim
Guy Germody ..... Dombey Victim
Kostia Gouzic ..... Dombey Victim
Arnaud Rosenblatt ..... Dombey Victim
Rolland Safrana ..... Dombey Victim
Jean-Claude Subiro ..... Dombey Victim
Hakan Coskuner ..... German Soldier
Frédéric Jessua ..... Taxi Driver
Victor Loukianenko ..... German Soldier
Eric Moreau ..... Policeman
Thierry René ..... Daniel
Olivier Riquelme ..... Soldier

Synopsis:

1992. The French government has passed a law punishing crimes against humanity allowing them to prosecute Nazi collaborators from WWII. Magistrate Annemarie Livi has been assigned the case of Pierre Brossard, a police officer in Dombey, France in June, 1944, when he helped round up a group of Jewish persons and personally chose seven of them to be executed. Brossard was captured and held in police custody in 1955 following a trial where he was sentenced to death for being a collaborator, before he was able to escape. Brossard has since received a Presidential pardon for those crimes. Livi enlists the help of Colonel Roux of the French Army to assist in this case in she not trusting the police who assisted the Vichy regime during the war. While Roux informs her that he is aware of an unknown Jewish organization that is also tracking and wanting to execute Brossard, Livi knows that the pardon was arranged by someone who must have been an associate of Brossard - who she refers to as 'The Old Man' - now probably high up in the government. They are also both aware that the Catholic church has actively been assisting Brossard all these years, probably in providing him both with funds and shelter, them being able to break through the closed ranks of the church a major hurdle they will have to overcome. Livi is further given a warning by a close family friend, Armand Bertier, a government minster, that she is walking into a land mine of a case. Brossard, who is aware that he is being tracked both by the Jewish and by the national authorities, is indeed what he considers a devout Catholic in the realm of the traditionalists, he, who trying to stay one step ahead of those tracking him, looking for absolution from the church, while not prepared to give himself up to either the Jewish or the authorities. The Jewish have their own additional motive beyond killing Brossard for his crimes, while those pulling their strings have one more additional motive in protecting themselves.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 21 July, 2025.