Savage

Genre: Drama

Language: French

Subtitles: English, German

Format: xxx

Sound: xxx

Duration: 90 min

Country: Belgium, Switzerland, France

Year: 2010

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SYNOPSIS

This is the story of the relationship between Adriana, a young and rebel city girl, and Bernard, an old misanthrop, in a lost valley of Mercantour, major place of an almighty nature.

The meeting of these two lonelinesses will bring them both to a kind of redemption : for Adriana, this will be through artistic creation.

CREDITS

Director : Jean-François Amiguet

Script : Jean-François Amiguet, Tieri Briet, Sandrine Bourguignon, Maria Cordoba
Image : Piotr Stadnicki, Anna-Katia Vincent, Camille Cottagnoud

Sound : Laurent Barbey, Vincent Kappeler
Decors : Bruno Margery, Marie Delfau
Costumes : Isa Boucharlat

Cast : Jean-Luc Bideau, Clémentine Beaugrand

Produced by Tarantula Belgium, Perspective Films (France), Zagora Films (Switzerland), Monkey Bay Productions (France)

FESTIVALS

DIRECTOR

Jean-François Amiguet first studied Political Science at Université de Lausanne. Graduated, he first commits to cinema by working as a technician on several movies with filmmakers Marcel Schüpbach, Alain Tanner and Yves Yersin. During this time he also directs short documentaries.

Since 1980, he begins a masterpiece, a feature trilogy that he will end in 1993. He also realises a lot of productions for the Swiss Romandie television. In 2003, he presents his fourth fiction feature film, « Au Sud des nuages ». The production company « Zagora Films S.A. », that he founded with Bertrand Liechti, is a co-producer of the movie. He also stands out as the co-founder of the Fondation Vaudoise pour le Cinéma.