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Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace from the raging civil war. The characters will be played by actors from different political and religious camps. Lost in a city and a conflict he knows nothing about, Georges is guided by Marwan. As fighting resumes, everything is soon called into question, and Georges, who falls in love with Imane, has to face up to the reality of war.Read moreLess
Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace from the raging civil war. The characters will be played by actors from different political and religious camps. Lost in a city and a conflict he knows nothing about, Georges is guided by Marwan. As fighting resumes, everything is soon called into question, and Georges, who falls in love with Imane, has to face up to the reality of war.
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Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace from the raging civil war. The characters will be played by actors from different political and religious camps. Lost in a city and a conflict he knows nothing about, Georges is guided by Marwan. As fighting resumes, everything is soon called into question, and Georges, who falls in love with Imane, has to face up to the reality of war.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Laurent LafitteGeorges
Simon AbkarianMarwan
Manal IssaImane
Tarek YaacoubNakad
Bernard BlochSam Akounis
Aude-Laurence Clermont BiverAmie Pro-Palestinienne
Joël DelsautMari de Isabelle
Elsa RauchsInfirmièreExplore the crew
- Editor
- Sandie Bompar
- Director
- David Oelhoffen
- Producer
- Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
- Producer
- Maya Hariri
- Producer
- Bady Minck
- Producer
- Christine Rouxel
- Director of Photography
- Guillaume Deffontaines
- Writer
- David Oelhoffen
- Original Music Composer
- Tom Gatti
- Original Music Composer
- Jerome Reuter