MERCENAIRE

Through the intercession of shifty Abraham, Soane moves from his native Polynesia to France to become a professional rugby player. Because of a mishap he ends up on a second-rate team. Even though he is a French citizen, he soon finds himself marginalized and must suffer the aversion of those who consider him nothing more than a rugby player. [cg]

“The trajectory of Soane’s journey is also conditioned by History, which haunts the relationship between the Oceanians and the former colonizers, the Europeans. His ambivalent relationship with Abraham, who goes from protector and savior to unscrupulous smuggler and blackmailer, works along these lines and illustrates the complexity of adapting Polynesian traditional values to Western values. Rugby men today are heirs to the descendants of blackbirding victims, people subjected to disguised slavery by white boat captains who captured and forced them to work as slaves in unhuman conditions all over the world.”

regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay
Sacha Wolff
fotografia/cinematography
Samuel Lahu
montaggio/film editing
Laurence Manheimer
musica/music
Luc Meilland
suono/sound
Julien Sicart
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Toki Pilioko (Soane), Iliana Zabeth (Coralie), Laurent Pakihivatau (Abraham), Mikaele Tuugahala (Sosefo), Petelu Sealeu (Leone), Maoni Talalua (Tomasi), Teotola Maka (Epiphania)
produzione/production
Timshel Productions, 3B Productions
coproduzione/coproduction
Arte Cinéma France


contatti/contacts
Be For Films
Pamela Leu
pamela@beforfilms.com
www.beforfilms.com