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Aaltra

Belgium, France

2004

92 Min
Black and White
2.35:1
Dutch, Finnish, French, German, English
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DIR Gustave de Kervern, Benoît Delépine

PROD Guillaume Malandrin, Vincent Tavier

SCR Benoît Delépine, Gustave de Kervern

DP Hugues Poulain

CAST Benoît Delépine, Gustave de Kervern, Michel de Gavre, Gérard Condejean, Isabelle Delépine

ED Anne-Laure Guégan

PROD DES Isabelle Girard

MUSIC Les Wampas

SOUND Laurent Cercleux, Guillaume Le Bras

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Gustave de Kervern

Gustave de Kervern (born 1962) is a French film actor, director and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaboration with Benoit Delepine. In 2004 he wrote, directed, and starred in Aaltra with Benoit Delepine. Also with Delepine, he has directed and starred in Avida, which was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. The duos film Louise-Michel won a Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Their latest film Mammuth starred Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani. It was nominated for the Golden Bear award at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. —Wikipedia 

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Benoît Delépine

Benoît Delépine (30 August 1958 –) is a French comedian and film director. He is known for his satirical activities on TV channel Canal+.

Director of the TV program Guignols de l’info for many years, he currently writes TV programs about the fictional country of Groland. He also plays the cynical journalist-reporter Mickael Kael.

In the cinema, Delépine has written and performed in two films. Mickael Kael contre la World News Company, a chess commercial, reprising two elements of the fictional career of the director: his role as a reporter for Groland and the World Company, which he contributed to create for Les Guignols.

In 2004, Aaltra, which he wrote, directed, and starred in with Gustave de Kervern enjoyed critical success. The two companions from the Groland adventure wrote and directed it as a road movie where two enemies travel the roads of northern France and Finland following an accident. Also with Gustave Kervern, he has directed and starred in Avida… read more

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GLYFSIX2

2Nov11

absolute mirth

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Rusty Swagger

8Feb11

Hilarious! Had almost nearly as many laughs the second viewing as I did the first. Loves me a good ol' dark and dead pan comedy. Some of the gags in this stuck with me for days!

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Bryter Layter

3Jan11

you can easily love Aaltra if you likes Kaurismaki

Umut Yüksel

19May10

I need to see it right away :)))))))

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Observer Film Quarterly

By David Hudson on December 6, 2009

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