Exils

• Romain Duris: Zano
• Lubna Azabal: Naima
• Leila Makhlouf: Leila
• Habib Cheik: Habib
• Zouhir Gacem: Said

Exile is a produced in 2004 film drama that coming from Algeria, French director Tony Gatlif.

Action

" Et si on allait en Algérie? ." How would it be if we went to Algeria? Zanos (Romain Duris ) proposal meets his girlfriend Naima ( Lubna Azabal ) without warning and at first does not solve more than entgeistertes laughter. Hardly later the two, however, are already on the way to almost penniless from Paris to pave their way across the Iberian Peninsula to North Africa. The movement is unleashed and it takes just a few words, the wandering keep going as for their abrupt initial spark. Because Zano, his parents, two " pieds - noirs ", lost on the way to the first Algeria holiday for repatriation in a car accident, and Naima, whose father refused to speak Arabic with her, do not look for explanations, but in exile from everyday life according to their own experience of the foreign country of origin of the parents, remember the only painful healed scars.

Background

• The film also tells Tony Gatlif's return to his home country, 43 years after he left it.

Probably the most personal of exile so far 14 feature films of Tony Gatlif, for which the director has next to the script also created together with dolphins Mantoulet the music. His own youth in exile in France was marked by crime and educational institutions. " The film is not a particular idea is based, but my desire to look at my wounds. It took me 43 years to return to the land of my childhood, Algeria to return. Almost 7,000 km by road, by train, by car, by boat and on foot, "said Gatlif. And the music of their healing properties Gatlif is convinced, lies down like a balm on the wounds, "She is the only real connection between the living and the dead, she conveys the joy, pain, melancholy and love on the tops of feeling. "

(Mary Anderson)

Awards

• Tony Gatlif and Delphine Mantoulet in 2005 were nominated for a César.
• In the Film Festival of Cannes 2004 Tony Gatlif won the Best Director Award and was nominated for the Golden Palm.

Criticism

Lexicon of international film: " In the romantic transfiguration of the unbound life of the documentary film created simplified, but captivating in the suggestive pictures and a vibrant rhythm that exaggerate the lostness of people mythical. "