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Director(s):	Nicolas Steil
Producer(s):	IRIS PRODUCTIONS CAB Productions (CH)
Script:	Jean-Louis Schlesser, Nicolas Steil
Year:	2009
Form:	FICTION - Feature film
Genre:	Drama
Original version:	French
Running time:	100'
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Synopsis

Our past sticks with us. Ours, our family’s and our country’s.

Without getting to the bottom of it, without digging up the suffering we have buried, evolution is not possible.

Wartime slows history down, but for men decisions are accelerated: Collaborate with the enemy, or resist?

However, we have to ask ourselves an even more fundamental question: Take on the role of a victim, or try to survive... but at what cost?

François, a 21-year-old, is living in a small country that Nazi Germany has just annexed. His father, who collaborates with the fascist regime, forced him to go to German university. But François committed a first act of disobedience: he left this place that preached racial hatred.

Now he is facing a Cornelian choice: to become forcibly enrolled and leave for the Russian front to fight the Allies or to become a draft dodger, buried alive in the cold and damp mines for months on end without seeing the light of day, the only hope being the Liberation.

« Draft dodgers » is a grasping psychological drama that makes us experience the path of a young man who is depersonalized by a heavy family history, but will manage to find himself at the cost of his own life.

Casting

Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Marianne Basler, Carlo Brandt, Michel Voïta, Thierry van Werveke, Charles Muller

Crew

Ingénieur du son: Carlo Thoss
Equipe Luxembourg (Chef Poste):
Décors: Christina Schaffer
Costumes: Uli Simon
Maquillage et coiffure: Katja Reinert
Musique: André Mergenthaler et Michel Wintsch

Nominations & Awards

Meilleur film de fiction, meilleur réalisateur, meilleur acteur (Grégroire Leprince-Ringuet), meilleur photographie au L.A. Underground Film Festival (USA), 2011

Meilleur film au Radar Hamburg International Independant Festival (Allemagne), 2011

Hollwood Reel Independant Festival (USA), 2011

Fort Lauderdale (USA), 2011

Artivist Film Festival Hollywood (USA), 2011

Eurociné Film Festival: Milan, Madri, Budapest, Bruxelles, 2011

Bahamas International Film Festival, 2010

African International Film Festival (Nigeria), 2010

American Film Institute Festival, Washington (USA), 2010

Festival international du film Regionfun, Katowice (Pologne), 2010

International Film Festival Ciné-Jeune (France), 2010

Gyeryong Militairy Film Festival (Corée du Sud), 2010

New York City International Film Festival (compétition) (USA), 2010

Festival européen d'Ukraine, Kiev , 2010 UGC Fête L'Europe 2010

Asia Tour 2010: Thaïlande, Indonésie, Malaisie, Timor de l'Est, 2010

Festival Days Of European Film de Prague (République tchèque), 2010

Cinéfranco, Festival du Film Francophone de Toronto (Canada), 2010

13ème Festival Annuel de l'Union Européenne à Chicago (USA), 2010

Festival de la Francophonie de Pékin (Chine), 2010

Cinema Mundi 2010, Brno (République Tchèque)

28ème Festival International de Téhéran (Iran), 2010

Compétition Officielle pour le Prix du Meilleur Film étranger au Festival International de Palm Springs (USA), 2010

Festival des Films du Monde Montréal (Canada) 2009

Pusan 14th International Film Festival (Corée duSud), 2009

2e Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême (compétition officielle) (France), 200

International sales

Albany Films Distribution

Poster

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