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Original Name: Les Misérables
English Name: Les Misérables
Year: 2019
Run Time: 102'
Language: French
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: France
Director: Ladj Ly
Producer: Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral
Cast: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djibril Zonga,
Issa Perica, Al-Hassan Ly
Screenplay: Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini, Alexis Manenti
Cinematographer: Julien Poupard
Editor: Flora Volpeliere
Sound Designer: Arnaud Lavaleix, Matthieu Autin,
Jérôme Gonthier, Marco Casanova
Music Composer: Pink Noise
Costume Designer: Marine Galliano
Production Designer: Karim Lagati
Production Company: Srab Films
World Sales: Wild Bunch
World Sales Phone: +33 1 43 13 21 60
World Sales Email: ediederix@wildbunch.eu
Cannes FF 2019
Palm Springs IFF 2020
IFF Rotterdam 2020
AFI Latin American FF 2019
2017 Les Misérables (Short)
2015 Mr. Brainwash
2007 365 Days In Clichy Montfermeil (Docu)
1997 Montfermeil Les Bosquets
Native from Montfermeil, Ladj Ly began his career with the collective Kourtrajmé. He also directed various making-of films. In 2016, he had directed the advertising Marakani in Mali for an NGO. Then he co-wrote the documentary 28 Millimetres with the photographer JR. In 2017, he directed the short film Les Misérables nominated at the French César awards in 2018, as well as the documentary he co-directed with Etienne de Fraitas, A Voix Haute. Les Misérables is his first feature film.
Stéphane has recently joined the Anti-Crime Brigade in Montfermeil, in the Paris suburbs. Alongside his new colleagues Chris and Gwada – both experienced members of the team – he quickly discovers tensions running high between neighbourhood gangs. When they find themselves overrun during the course of an arrest, a drone captures their every movement, their every action…Inspired by the riots of 2005, the film explores contemporary Montfermeil, the same place where Victor Hugo chose to set “Les Misérables” in 1862. More than 150 years later, the similarities between today’s angry, hoodie-wearing youth and Gavroche are only too clear.
