Un Lac

Venice Film Festival 2008
Orrizzonti
Hong Kong International
Film Festival 2009

Un Lac

A Film by Philippe Grandrieux

2008 - France - Drama - 1.85 DCP - 90 min.

with Dmitry Kubasov , Natalie Rehorova , Alexei Solonchev & Simona Hülsemann

Language: French
Produced by Catherine Jacques

The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests, somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with a pure heart. A woodcutter. An ecstatic, prey to epileptic fits, he is entirely opened to the nature that surrounds him. Alexi is terribly close to his younger sister, Hege. Their blind mother, their father, and their little brother are the silent witnesses to their overwhelming love. A stranger arrives, a young man barely older than Alexi…

Venice Film Festival 2008
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Hong Kong International
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