Longs métrages français Competition 2011

Robert Mitchum Is Dead

Robert Mitchum est mort

Olivier Babinet / Fred Kihn

FranceBelgiumPolandNorway

2010 Fiction 1h28

Franky, an insomniac unemployed actor and Arsène, his manager, are on the verge of a financial precipice: Franky, friend, spiritual son and source of income for Arsène, can't get up in the morning any more and misses out on the rare jobs that Arsène digs up for him. Arsène, a kleptomaniac rock fan, decides to go all in. He steals a car from a garage at gunpoint and takes his "protégé" Franky to the Arctic Circle.

With : Olivier Gourmet, Pablo Nicomedes, Bakary Sangaré
Screenplay : Olivier Babinet, Fred Kihn
Image : Timo Salminen
Sound : Quentin Colette
Editing : Yann Dedet, Thomas Marchand

Production : Ferris & Brockman// Igor Wojtowicz// 8 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière// 75010 Paris, France // Tel : + 33 (0) 53 34 64 64 // Email : igor@ferris-brockman.com
Co-production : Panache Production, Belgique / Studio Agart, Pologne / Sweet Films, Norvège
Distribution: Shellac// Friche la Belle de Mai// 41 rue Jobin// 13003 Marseille France // Email : shellac@altern.org
International sales: M-Appeal / Tel : +33 49 30 61 507 505 / Email : sales@m-appeal.com

Olivier Babinet is self-taught and began directing as a teenager, making photo-novellas and music videos for his rock group. He has written and directed several television series, experimental films and music videos. In 2009 his first short film was noticed in several festivals, including Premiers Plans, receiving many awards. He co-founded the production company Ferris & Brockman, which produced his first feature Robert Mitchum est mort.Fred Kihn is self-taught in life and a reader of Albert Cossery who treats with elegance and humour the strength of free men against the idiocy of the privileged. He has picked dwarf