Dheepan
When the war continues to rage in your heart and mind
Country
Production
Budget
$0
Box office
$7 704 357
Director
Actors
Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, Marc Zinga, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Bass Dhem, Franck Falise, Joséphine de Meaux, Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Pascal Caucheteux, Jacques Audiard, Rebecca O'Brien, Martine Cassinelli
Camera operator
Éponine Momenceau
Composer
Nicolas Jaar
Artist
Michel Barthélémy, Benoist Buttin
Audition
Mohamed Belhamar, Philippe Elkoubi
Editing
Short description
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film Dheepan (2015) was the first for Jesuthasan Antonithasan, where he played the main role. Before that, he only appeared once in a cameo role in the Indian film «Sendagal» (2011).
- The performers of the main female roles, Kalieaswari Srinivasan and Claudine Vinasithamby, had not previously appeared in feature films.
- The French director shot this film almost entirely in Tamil.
- «Dheepan» was the first feature film for cinematographer Eponin Momansson and composer Nicolas Jaar.
- This is the first film by Jacques Audiard not composed by Alexandre Desplat.
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