Country: France
Year: 2000
Duration: 102'
1967. A couple that own a bistro, appears at the door of an orphanage; they are looking for a nice girl to replace their daughter who normally lent them a hand at work. They say, their daughter had to go to Toulouse to take care of a maiden aunt who had suddenly fallen sick. «I am afraid that you have made a mistake» says the directress of the orphanage. «This is a special orphanage set aside for girls of colonial ancestry». The couple replies that colour was only skin deep... That race balck, white, mixed it was all the same to them. They ask the directress did she have a girl who might he suitable?...
Biography
film director
Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles was born in 1932 in Chicago. He served as a flight navigator for three in the US Air Force. After the military, he spent brief stints in Mexico where he worked as a portrait painter. He moved to Paris in the early 1960s. In 1967 he returned to the United States as a French delegate to the San Francisco Film Festival, with his first feature lenght film, La Permission. Van Peebles has become an iconic presence to the younger generation of black and indie filmmakers.
FILMOGRAFIA
Cinq Cent Balles (1963), La Permission (1968), Watermelon Man (1969), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971), Don't Play Us Cheap (1973), Identity Crisis (1990), Vroom Vroom Vroom (1994), Le Conte du ventre plein (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura e musica: Melvin Van Peebles.
Director of photography: Philippe Pavans de Ceccatty.
Art director: Karim Nezzar-Kebaïli.
Editor: Catherine D'Hoir.
Sound: Philippe Richard; Claude Villand.
Cast and characters: Meiji U Tum'si (Diamantine), Andréa Ferréol (Loretta), Jacques Boudet (Henri), Herman van Veen (Jan), Claude Perron (Blanchette), Frank Delhaye (Lucien).
Production company: Euripide Productions, 15 Rue Vezelay, 15008 Paris, France.
Distribuzione e vendita all'estero: Films Distribution, 6 Rue de l'Ecole de Detective, 75006 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-53103399, fax +33-1-5310 3398, e-mail: info@filmsditribution.com
Director of photography: Philippe Pavans de Ceccatty.
Art director: Karim Nezzar-Kebaïli.
Editor: Catherine D'Hoir.
Sound: Philippe Richard; Claude Villand.
Cast and characters: Meiji U Tum'si (Diamantine), Andréa Ferréol (Loretta), Jacques Boudet (Henri), Herman van Veen (Jan), Claude Perron (Blanchette), Frank Delhaye (Lucien).
Production company: Euripide Productions, 15 Rue Vezelay, 15008 Paris, France.
Distribuzione e vendita all'estero: Films Distribution, 6 Rue de l'Ecole de Detective, 75006 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-53103399, fax +33-1-5310 3398, e-mail: info@filmsditribution.com