The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011 film)

• Ariane Ascaride: Marie -Claire
• Jean -Pierre Darroussin: Michel
• Gérard Meylan: Raoul
• Marilyne Canto: Denise
• Grégoire Leprince- Ringuet: Christophe
• Anaïs Demoustier: Flo
• Adrien Jolivet: Gilles
• Robinson Stévenin: Commissioner
• Karole Rocher: Christophe's mother
• Julie -Marie Parmentier: Agnès
• Pierre Niney: waiter
• Yann Loubatière: Jules
• Jean -Baptiste Fonck: Martin
• Emilie Piponnier: Maryse
• Raphaël Hidrot: Jeannot
• Anthony Decadi: Gabriel
• Frédérique Bonnal: Martine
• Miguel Ferreira: Serge Kasparian
• Jeanine Gévaudan: Madame Iselim

The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a French film directed by Robert Guédiguian from the year 2011. He was inspired by the poem Les pauvres assets of Victor Hugo.

Action

Dock workers and trade union representatives Michel lives with his wife Marie -Claire in a house in Marseille. Marie -Claire earned some money as a cleaning woman and once abandoned her training as a nurse for Michel. Both have children and three grandchildren. Marie- Claire's sister Denise is married to Raoul, who works as Michel at the port. The company must lay off 20 workers. Michel leaves the names of the draw lots to Dismiss ligands, where he indicates himself as one of the On the mustards. He is now, at age 50, unemployed, and will get because of his age certainly no more work. He waits for the termination of his job and devoted himself otherwise the house work and time with his grandchildren. He may use as Ausrichtungsort his 30th wedding anniversary and it loads in addition to the family and all the 19 dismissed employees His former job. Marie- Claire and he get a wedding chest with money and two tickets for a trip to the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. The trip was a secret wish of Marie -Claire, and both are looking forward to the adventure. Michel, in turn, receives from his brother Raoul, a first edition of a comic booklet which had once belonged to Michel anyway and missed this. Raoul claimed he had accidentally seen the notebook in which Michels name stands for a bookseller.

Some time later sitting Michel, Marie -Claire, her sister Denise and her husband Raoul playing cards when suddenly two masked men stormed the house and all four tie. They demand the cash and the credit cards of those present. You seem to know exactly that Marie -Claire and Michel have received money in their celebration. Michel is thrown on his chair tied to the ground and injured on the shoulder, Denise suffers a breakdown. After the men are satisfied that the specified PIN numbers of the cards are right, they go. One of them takes the comic book that Michel has received the wedding day. After the attack has changed the lives of two couples. Denise is constantly haunted by nightmares and avoids the public. Often she cries and needs to seek treatment. Michels shoulder injury heals very slowly, so he has to wear an arm in a sling and is therefore in everything he does, limited. Marie -Claire begins to doubt alive while Raoul developed over the weeks a growing hatred of the perpetrators, as it is his wife getting worse.

In one of the perpetrators are young Christophe, who was one of the workers who were dismissed by Michel. Because his mother, who took him as a 16 -year-old in the world, is rarely at home, he takes care of his two little brothers Jules and Martin. Jules takes the comic book and read it on the bus, the Michel also increasing. He recognizes the issue, which he borrows short because his name drinsteht. He follows the children and sees that Christophe is one of them. Shortly thereafter, the police can arrest Christophe. He confesses to the crime, but did not find the investigators captured the money. It turns out later that he has so paid and bought his rent arrears. During an interview at the police station mocked Christophe Michel, who could withstand the loss of money in his life and yet would support anyway by the union. Michel is so outraged that he beats the bound. Marie- Claire, who has followed the scene, is horrified. Michel plagues the conscience and he considered withdrawing his complaint, Christophe threaten but 15 years in prison. Especially Raoul is strictly against him, the maximum penalty is but even not far enough. Marie -Claire, in turn, worries about the two brothers Christophe. It gives acces to the apartment, gaining the children's trust and begins the evening to clean and cook for them, looking to them animated films and bring them to bed. Before Michel she explains her absence with the movies and later with newly acquired evening shifts. Michel learns that a withdrawal of the ad would not make sense, since in any case charges would be brought against Christophe. A second meeting with Christophe is similar hostile as the first, so throws Christophe Michel before that the dismissal of the workers should have done differently. You could omit hardship cases, dismissed dual or should just shorten the working hours for all. On Michels asked how he could help him, Christophe reacts initially puzzled and says sarcastically that someone could take care of his apartment.

The second offender can be arrested and Michel gets the two flight tickets back to Kilimanjaro. He conceals this Marie- Claire and gives the tickets back. He really wants to give the two children, the money thus obtained, however, chooses to. He confesses to his wife, who he met on the beach that he has returned the tickets. Michel suggests that she take for the period of detention Christophe whose brethren with him. Marie -Claire agrees, and a short time later Jules and Martin standing next to her. They had gone for a short time swimming. Marie -Claire and Michel are happy that they both had the same thought. When her children her decision met with incomprehension and rejection. Similarly, the fact that both have the tickets, for which the family took years returned, it is counted as an affront. Only Raoul and Denise, who finds its way back slowly into life, support the two. They appear unasked for grilling and have candy and toys for Jules and Martin here. Raoul, who had quarreled about Michels behavior of the last few weeks with him, reconciles with him. He confesses to him now that he had once stolen the comic book, and both men fall laughing into his arms.

Production

The Snows of Kilimanjaro was turned with Marseille. He experienced 14 May 2011 in the Un Certain Regard at the International Film Festival in Cannes premiered and ran on November 16, 2011 in French cinemas on. In Switzerland, the film was released on 22 December 2011 in the cinemas and was seen from 15 March 2012, in the German cinemas. In September 2012, The Snows of Kilimanjaro on DVD was released.

The film title refers to the song Kilimanjaro of Pascal Danel from 1967, sung on the wedding day celebration. Martin and Jules look at the television film The Triplets of Belleville, while Michel a Premiership football match between Olympique de Marseille and FC Lorient look at on 21 August 2010.

Criticism

For the filmdienst The Snows of Kilimanjaro was a " light-hearted [s ] class-struggle fairytale. Photographed Stylish, he takes sometimes picturesque, also menschelnde trains, but always lovingly told his heartwarming story " " help instead of punishment: a sincere manifesto against cynicism and ignorance ". , Cinema summarized.

Awards

On the Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid, the film won the 2011 Audience Award; Director Guédiguian was also awarded the Silver ear for the best film. Also in 2011 won Guédiguian for The Snows of Kilimanjaro the LUX Prize of the European Parliament. Ariane Ascaride 2012 received a César Award nomination for Best Actress. Anaïs Demoustier won in the same year an Étoile d'Or for Best Young Actress.