Elvis
Jean-Christian Bourcart
A man on the run, injured and worn-out, hides in the ruins of besieged Sarajevo. With the help of a group of children he finds refuge in an empty room. The occupiers of the building come to question him about his identity and his past. He remains quite evasive causing the building to resound with gossip about the character who calls himself Elvis. Thanks to the help of Maya, a young woman who falls in love with him, Elvis seems to enjoy this deferred sentence until someone discovers that he is not the person he pretends to be. "What could one do for Sarajevo at the end of 1993? Certainly something better than a film [S*] Yet one can only respond in a personal manner when confronted with a theater of horror. Our response has been to try to carry this film project to completion".
With : Zan Marolt , Elvedina Dzeko, Izudin Bajrovic, Ljubica Znidaric, Sabahudin Pitic
Screenplay : Jean-Christian Bourcart, Alain Duplantier
Image : Alain Duplantier
Sound : Ludovic Careme
Editing : Antoine Moreau
Screenplay : Jean-Christian Bourcart, Alain Duplantier
Image : Alain Duplantier
Sound : Ludovic Careme
Editing : Antoine Moreau
Production : Les Productions Lazennec - 5, rue Darcet, 75017 Paris, France - Tél : 33 1 43 87 71 71, Fax : 33 1 43 87 17 74
Jean-Christian Boucart was born in 1960. He holds a degree from the ETPA of Toulouse. He has been a member of the Rapho agency since 1990 and collaborates with Libération and other newspapers as a photo-journalist. He has already co-directed two video films, one on Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Africa and the other with Robert Frank. Born in 1964, Alain Duplantier is also a press photographer. He has made about fifty French and foreign music videos, various commercials and a documentary film about music for Arte. The shooting of Elvis ended in September 1994. It was done in difficult circumstances in Sarajevo. "Elvis" is the first feature-length film of both directors.