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Le Havre [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Aki Kaurismäki.

Criterion Collection, 2012.

Noncitizens -- France -- Drama.

France -- Emigration and immigration -- Drama.

Africa -- Emigration and immigration -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 619.

Video Difference legacy collection.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Director-approved two-DVD special ed.

2 videodiscs (93 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital Surround sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Originally released as a comedy-drama motion picture in 2011.

Special features: Disc 1: New high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Aki Kaurismäki ; trailer ; Disc 2: New interview with actor André Wilms; footage from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival ; Finnish television interview with actress Kati Outinen from 2011 ; concert footage of Little Bob, the musician featured in the film ; PLUS: a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Sicinski and a 2011 conversation between Kaurismäki and film historian Peter von Bagh.

1.85:1 aspect ratio.

A Finland/France/Germany co-production.

In French with optional English subtitles.

Produced by Aki Kaurismäki , Fabienne Vonier and Reinhard Brundig ; written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki ; Sputnik Oy, Pyramide Productions, Pandora Film ; coproduction of Arte France Cinéma, ZDF/Arte ; with the participation of the Finnish Film Foundation ; Canal+, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Le Centre du Cinéaa et de L'image animé, Yle Coporductions, Cinécinéma, Arte France, La Région Haute-Normandie.

André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel with Elina Salo, Evelyne Didi, Quoc-Dung Nguyen, Laika, François Monnié, Pierre Étaix, Little Bob and Jean-Pierre Léaud.

"In this warmhearted comic yarn from Aki Kaurismaki, fate throws the young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a kindly bohemian who shines shoes for a living, in the French harbor city Le Havre. With inborn optimism and the support of most of his tight-knit community, Marcel stands up to the officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic French cinema of the past, Le Havre is a charming, deadpan delight and one of the Finnish director's finest films."--Container.

Social problem films.

Films français.

Films comiques.

Kaurismäki, Aki, 1957-

Outinen, Kati, 1961-

Darroussin, Jean-Pierre.

Miguel, Blondin.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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