Country: France
Year: 2012
Duration: 105'
Shortly before joining the Israeli Army to do his two years’ obligatory military service, Joseph discovers he was switched at birth and the people he has always considered his biological parents are actually the parents of Yacine, a young man his own age who lives in a Palestinian family on the West Bank. It is a shock for both young men, who are so different from each other, and for their relatives, and it will force all of them to reconsider their values, convictions and respective identities.
Biography
film director
Lorraine Levy
Lorraine Lévy is a French screenwriter and director for the silver screen and television. After collaborating on numerous TV series and films, she debuted in 2005 with the feature-length comedy La première fois que j’ai eu 20 ans, which was followed by the short Dix films pour en parler (2007), the romantic comedy Mes amis mes amours (2008), and the TV movies Un divorce de chien (2010) and Le fils de L’autre (2012). As a playwright and theatrical director, she wrote and staged Finie la comédie (1988) and La partage (1994).
FILMOGRAFIA
Les frangines (tv, 2003), Legardère (tv, 2005), La première fois que j’ai eu 20 ans (2005), Ma meilleure amie (tv, 2006), L’affaire Sacha Guitry (tv, 2007), Dix films pour en parler (cm, 2007), Cartouche, le brigand magnifique (tv, 2008), Mes amis mes amours (2008), Du sang et de l’encre (tv, 2009), Un divorce de chien (tv, 2010), Le fils de l’autre (Il figlio dell’altra, 2012).
Declaration
film director
“Family is a microcosm which gives origin to what we are. But what does it mean to be a child? Or an adult? Can a person choose to remain one or become the other? I really like Kenneth Branagh’s definition: ‘An adult is only a child with responsibilities.’ Obviously, we go to the heart of the preceding question. The two young people have undertaken such completely different walks of life that one has already drastically changed while the other one still hasn’t. [...] I wanted this difference to be immediately noticeable, I wanted my actors to physically incarnate this break.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Lorraine Lévy
soggetto/story Noam Fitoussi
sceneggiatura/screenplay Nathaline Saugeon, Lorraine Lévy, Noam Fitoussi fotografia/cinematography Emmanuel Soyer
montaggio/film editing Sylvie Gadmer
scenografia/production design Miguel Markin, Eytan Lévy
costumi/costume design Rona Doron, Valérie Adda
musica/music Dhafer Youssef
suono/sound Jean-Paul Bernard
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Emmanuelle Devos (Orith), Pascal Elbé (Alon), Jules Sitruk (Joseph), Mehdi Dehbi (Yacine), Areen Omari (Leïla), Khalifa Natour (Saïd), Mahamood Shalabi (Bilal), Diana Zriek (Amina), Marie Wisselman (Keren), Bruno Podalydès (David), Ezra Dagan (il rabbino/rabbi), Tamar Shem Or (Yona), Tomer Ofner (Ilan), Noa Manor (Ethel), Shira Naor (Lisa) produttori/producers Virginie Lacombe, Raphaël Berdugo
produzione/production Rapsodie Production, Cité Films
distribuzione/distribution Teodora Film
soggetto/story Noam Fitoussi
sceneggiatura/screenplay Nathaline Saugeon, Lorraine Lévy, Noam Fitoussi fotografia/cinematography Emmanuel Soyer
montaggio/film editing Sylvie Gadmer
scenografia/production design Miguel Markin, Eytan Lévy
costumi/costume design Rona Doron, Valérie Adda
musica/music Dhafer Youssef
suono/sound Jean-Paul Bernard
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Emmanuelle Devos (Orith), Pascal Elbé (Alon), Jules Sitruk (Joseph), Mehdi Dehbi (Yacine), Areen Omari (Leïla), Khalifa Natour (Saïd), Mahamood Shalabi (Bilal), Diana Zriek (Amina), Marie Wisselman (Keren), Bruno Podalydès (David), Ezra Dagan (il rabbino/rabbi), Tamar Shem Or (Yona), Tomer Ofner (Ilan), Noa Manor (Ethel), Shira Naor (Lisa) produttori/producers Virginie Lacombe, Raphaël Berdugo
produzione/production Rapsodie Production, Cité Films
distribuzione/distribution Teodora Film
