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Sauvons les apparences

Salviamo le apparenze!

Switzerland / France, April 2008
FILM, Fiction, 88 min.

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directed by
Nicole Borgeat
Written by
Nicole Borgeat, Denis Rabaglia, Marianne Brun
Status
In distribution

After his mother has an accident, obese Julien (14) is taken in by his uncle’s family in Switzerland. The family, who to all appearances are totally “normal”, make Julien’s nutrition and well-being their highest priority. But then Julien falls in love with Keiko, a young Japanese girl. In order to seduce her he pretends to be a Sumo-champion but soon finds himself in a quandary: he needs to lose weight for his new family, but he needs to gain weight if he is going to take part in the Sumo training and seduce Keiko. Bit by bit Julien’s lies start to crumble and it becomes very apparent that the other protagonists’ notion of normality is very relative…

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World Premiere
April 2008
Original Version
French,  colour, Digital HD, 88 min.
ISAN
0000-0001-F962-0000-E
Production
Point Prod, 13 production, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
Producer
Jean-Marc Fröhle
directed by
Nicole Borgeat
Written by
Nicole Borgeat, Denis Rabaglia, Marianne Brun
Cinemato­graphy
Hans Meier
Editing
Orsola Valenti
Re-Recording Mix
Edgard Biondina
Music
Grégoire Hetzel
Location Sound Mix
Henri Maïkoff
Production Design
Fabrizio Nicora
Lighting Design
Olivier Pilorget
Costumes
Erica Loup
Casting
Anne de Réparaz

Cast

Agnès Soral
Wladimir Yordanoff
Pierre Salandre
Xing Li
Ingrid Juveneton
Alice Langlois
Thierry Jorand

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