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Overview
L’Empreinte des géants is a French romantic film drama first released in 1980,
directed by Robert Enrico.
The film is based on a novel by Hortense Dufour and stars Mario Adorf, Zoé Chauveau, Patrick Chesnais, Andréa Ferréol and Raimund Harmstorf.
It has also been released under the title: The Imprint of Giants.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
Eleonore, a young teenage girl, is the daughter of Méru, a
roadworks foreman. For as long as she can remember, she is used
to living in caravans in mud beside the roads that are being
constructed by her father. She is also used to the road workers
and their machines, which she calls Giants. Since her mother’s
death, Eleonore does everything she can to please her father and her
two brothers, Paul and Louis. The men who drive those enormous
machines like to be called cowboys because every day they risk their
lives, knowing that the smallest mistake could prove fatal. After
Louis gets himself killed by his Giant and Paul has left for Chad,
Eleonore feels totally lost. Luckily, she still has her
father and some friends, without whom life would be unbearable.
They are: Lucie, a 26-year-old mother, Galy, an amusing Algerian,
and Fouldroule, the owner of the local café. It is these
people who will give Eleonore the strength to go on living...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium) Film Review
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