Les Oiseaux du ciel (2006) - film review
Eliane de Latour
Drama
Summary
Shad and Otho leave their home in Abidjan on the Ivory Coast to start a
new life in Europe. There, they hope to make their fortune and
return to their families as heroes, laden with riches. But things
do not quite go as they planned. Arriving at the Spanish border, Otho
is captured by the police and sent back to his home country, where he
is ill-received by his family. Meanwhile, Shad manages to evade
the police and, after several harrowing escapades, he finally reaches
England...
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Credits
- Director: Eliane de Latour
- Script: Eliane de Latour
- Photo: Renaud Chassaing
- Cast: Fraser James (Shad), Djédjé Apali (Otho), Marie-Josée Croze (Tango), Sara Martins (Olga), Lucien Jean-Baptiste (Tetanos), Tella Kpomahou (Pelagie), Malik Zidi (Bruno), Kad Merad (Oncle de Tango), Agnès Soral (La Blanche), Michel Boheri (père de Shad), Jean-Baptiste Anoumon (Goethe), Nick Bartlett (Gangster), Bass Dhem (La pagaille), Houda Echouafni (Girlfriend), James Gerard (Biff), Dioucounda Koma (Zoom), Moussa Sanogo (Reggae Man), Imotep Tshilombo (Joe Zaza)
- Country: France / UK
- Language: French
- Runtime: 90 min
- Aka: Birds of Heaven; Après l’océan
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