Opération Casablanca
Operation Casablanca
Switzerland / Canada / France, October 2010
FILM,
Fiction,
90 min.
- directed by
- Laurent Nègre
- Written by
- Laurent Nègre
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.operation-casablanca.com
One day, Saadi finally snaps. His boss has mistreated him one time too many. But when the young dishwasher, a North African illegal immigrant dares to protest, he is summarily fired. Leaving the rundown hotel in the outskirts of Geneva, on foot and with all his belongings in a shoulder bag, he becomes entangled in a terrorist group's attempt to kidnap the Secretary-General of the United Nations and is surrounded by a SWAT team battalion who has mistaken him for one of the Arab criminals. With both the terrorists and the police gunning for him, desperate to keep from going under in this vortex of insanity, Saadi has no choice but to play along with the fundamentalists and try to find his own piece of heaven.
credits
- World Premiere
- October 2010
- Original Version
- French, colour, 35mm, 90 min.
- Production
- Bord Cadre films Sàrl, Lyla Films, Ex Nihilo, Peacock Film AG, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, Telefilm Canada
- Producer
- Dan Wechsler
- directed by
- Laurent Nègre
- Written by
- Laurent Nègre
- Cinematography
- Yves Bélanger
- Editing
- Julien Sulser, Jean-Paul Cardinaux, Xavier Ruiz
- Music
- Ramachandra Bocar
- Location Sound Mix
- Jürg Lempen
- Production Design
- Sébastian Birchler
- Lighting Design
- Bruno Ferland
- Costumes
- Nicole Ferrari
- Casting
- Gigi Akoka, Marie Jean Seille, Mustafa Ziraoui, Emmanuel Dorand
Cast
Tarik Bakhari as Saadi
Élodie Yung as Isako
Gilles Tschudi as Glauser
Zinedine Soualem as Hassan
Jean-Luc Bideau as Michel
Julieta Serrano as Mme Rueda
Antoine Basler as Rueda
Émile Proulx-Cloutier as Abdelghani
Yoshi Oïda as Takahata
Hicham Nazzal as Youssef
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- The Yellow Affair
Worldwide Distribution
- Canada
-
Axia Films
Distribution
Release date: tba - France
-
Kanibal Films Distribution
Distribution
Release date: 01.12.2011
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Festival International du Film Oriental de Genève
28.04.2012 - 06.05.2012 -
Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie
17.11.2011 - 26.11.2011 -
Genève, 17e Cinéma Tous Ecrans – Festival international du cinéma et de télévision
04.11.2011 - 10.11.2011 -
Namur, 26e Festival international du film francophone Namur
30.09.2011 - 07.10.2011 -
Montréal International Comedy Festival
20.07.2011 - 31.07.2011 -
Paris, 6th ECU European Independent Film Festival Paris
01.04.2011 - 03.04.2011 -
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
20.01.2011 - 27.01.2011 -
34th Cairo International Film Festival
30.11.2010 - 09.12.2010 -
Sao Paulo, 34a Mostra Internacional de Cinema Sao Paulo
22.10.2010 - 04.11.2010