Lost in Transit
Lost in Transit | |
---|---|
![]() Film poster | |
Tombés du ciel | |
Directed by | Philippe Lioret |
Written by | Philippe Lioret Michael Ganz |
Produced by | Frédéric Brillion Gilles Legrand Enrique Posner |
Starring | Jean Rochefort Marisa Paredes Ticky Holgado Laura del Sol |
Cinematography | Thierry Arbogast |
Edited by | Laurent Quaglio |
Music by | Jeff Cohen |
Distributed by | AFMD |
Release dates |
|
Running time | 91 minutes |
Countries | France Spain |
Language | French |
Box office | $770.000[1] |
Lost in Transit (original title: Tombés du ciel; literally "Fallen from the Sky") is a 1993 French comedy-drama film directed by Philippe Lioret. The film is about a man who loses his passport and spends a couple of days at a Paris airport, where he meets four people in similar circumstances. The film won the Grand Prize at the 6th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival held in February 1995.[2] The film was inspired by the predicament of Mehran Karimi Nasseri.
Cast
[edit]- Jean Rochefort as Arturo Conti
- Marisa Paredes as Suzana, Arturo's wife
- Ticky Holgado as Serge
- Laura del Sol as Angela
- Sotigui Kouyaté as Knak
- Ismaïla Meite as Zola
- Jean-Louis Richard as Monsieur Armanet
- José Artur as Newspaper shop keeper
- Olivier Saladin as Restaurant manager
- François Morel as first C.R.S.
- Philippe Duquesne as C.R.S.
- Claude Derepp as Bébert, policeman
- Jacques Mathou as Policeman
- Christian Sinniger as Policeman
- Yves Osmu as Policeman
- Dimitri Radochevitch as Bus driver
- Pierre LaPlace as Inspector
Accolades
[edit]Award / Film Festival | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
---|---|---|---|
San Sebastián International Film Festival | Silver Shell for Best Director | Philippe Lioret | Won |
OCIC Award | Won | ||
Golden Shell | Nominated | ||
Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival | Grand Prize | Won |
See also
[edit]- Mehran Karimi Nasseri
- Flight, 1998 opera
- The Terminal, a 2004 film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on a similar story.
- List of people who have lived at airports
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Tombés du ciel (1994) - JPBox-Office".
- ^ "YUBARI INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL'95". yubarifanta.com. Archived from the original on 2004-04-07. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
External links
[edit]- Lost in Transit at IMDb
- cinemovies.fr entry (in French)