Overview
Achille, 13, awaits, full of hope, the release from prison of his father, unknown and fantasized. His dream of living as a threesome, like a real family, will be seriously undermined by a mother exhausted from waiting and this father who is unsuitable and made irresponsible by so many years of incarceration. Will this vulnerable person with a flamboyant past be able to keep the promise he made to his son to never live apart from him again?
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Setting
Set in Quebec
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Séverine CornamusazWriter
- Marcel BeaulieuWriter
- Original title
- Cyanure
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 27, 2013
- Original language
- French
- Countries
- Switzerland, Canada
Production
Cast
- Alexandre EtzlingerAchille
Roy DupuisJoe
Sabine TimoteoPénélope
Christophe SermetAlexis- Ludivine GeschwornerMathilde
- Thierry JorandJoe's boss
Isabelle CaillatPolice officer 1- Michel DemierrePolice officer 2
- Serge MusyPolice officer 3
- Marco CalamandreiPrison guard
Lionel FresardPrison guard x-ray- Pascal ParizotSupermarket client
- Mathilde MélèseSupermarket employee
- Lionel BlancClassmate
- Eliott FavreBaby Achille
- Tuna OezPrison guard
Paul Joaquim PereiraPrisonner- Yannick GuiraudButcher
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