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Pharaon de Winter is a police detective who lives with his mother in a working-class town in northern France. He agonizes over the evil he confronts every day during the course of his work. The brutal rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl tests Pharaon's profound humanity to its limits as the...

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Main Author: Cuvillier, Richard (Composer)
Corporate Authors: 3B Productions, Arte France cinéma (Firm), Centre régional de ressources audiovisuelles, Centre national de la cinématographie (France), France. Ministère de la culture, Studio Canal+, Procirep (Firm), Fox Lorber Films, WinStar TV and Video (Firm)
Other Authors: Bréhat, Jean (Producer), Bouchareb, Rachid (Producer), Dumont, Bruno, 1958- (Director, Screenwriter), Schotté, Emmanuel (Actor), Caneele, Séverine, 1974- (Actor), Tullier, Philippe (Actor), Ghesquière, Ghislain (Actor), Allègre, Ginette (Actor), Cape, Yves (Cinematographer), Lecorne, Guy (Film editor), Raoul, Nathalie
Format: Video DVD
Language:French
Language Notes:French dialogue (stereo) with optional English subtitles.
Published: New York, NY : Fox Lorber Films, [2000]
Subjects:
Detectives > France > Drama.
Detectives.
France.
Drama.
Feature films.
Police films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, French.
Fiction films.
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Summary:Pharaon de Winter is a police detective who lives with his mother in a working-class town in northern France. He agonizes over the evil he confronts every day during the course of his work. The brutal rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl tests Pharaon's profound humanity to its limits as the investigation proceeds to its climax, and as Pharaon struggles to grasp the crime's meaning.
Item Description:Videodisc release of the 1999 motion picture.
Special features: production credits; trailer (1 min.); interview with Bruno Dumont (17 min.).
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; NTSC.
Audience:MPAA rating: Not rated.
Awards:Cannes Film Festival, 1999, Grand Jury Prize (Bruno Dumont), Best Actor (Emmanuel Schotté) and Best Actress (Séverine Caneele)
Production Credits:Cinematographer, Yves Cape ; editor, Guy Lecorne ; original music, Richard Cuvillier ; costume designer, Nathalie Raoul.
ISBN:1572529997
9781572529991