Spartacus & Cassandra
Ioanis Nuguet
Two Rrom children are taken in by a young trapezist and live with her in a circus on the outskirts of Paris. In this peaceful but fragile haven, the eleven and thirteen year old brother and sister are torn between the new destiny that awaits them and their parents who live off the streets.
Screenplay : Ioanis Nuguet
Image : Ioanis Nuguet
Editing : Ioanis Nuguet, Aurélie Ménétrieux
Sound : Maissoun Zeineddine, Marie Clotilde Chery, Jean-François Briand, Alexandre Gallerand, Marc Nouyrigat
Image : Ioanis Nuguet
Editing : Ioanis Nuguet, Aurélie Ménétrieux
Sound : Maissoun Zeineddine, Marie Clotilde Chery, Jean-François Briand, Alexandre Gallerand, Marc Nouyrigat
Production : Morgane Production,3/5 boulevard Georges Seurat, 92200 Neuilly Sur Seine / Tél. : +33 (0)1 41 43 71 00 / Email : contact@morgane-groupe.fr
Distribution: Nour Films, Isabelle Benkemoun, 91, avenue de la République 75011 Paris / Tél : +33 1 47 00 96 62 / Email : contact@nourfilms.com
Distribution: Nour Films, Isabelle Benkemoun, 91, avenue de la République 75011 Paris / Tél : +33 1 47 00 96 62 / Email : contact@nourfilms.com
Born in 1983, Ioanis Nuguet went on to study and perform Balinese dance and theater in Indonesia from 2000 to 2002. Upon his return to France, he created several performances from this experience. In 2010 he directed the short film Exposés à disparaître. In 2011, after four years spent in the outskirts of Paris with Roma people, he started filming Spartacus & Cassandra, his first film.
"Spartacus & Cassandra could not be a pretext for observing the Rroms in French shanty towns. That was not the film I wanted to make. I wanted to make a film at ‘child level'. I had to find a form in which their viewpoints, their feelings, their thoughts could become time and image, jostle together, have a poetic embodiment. (...) Spartacus & Cassandra therefore naturally took the form of a tale. A tale which would also be an anti-tale or an inverted tale: the question for them is not one of saving their parents, something they were already trying to do, but one of saving themselves. With the dream that one day they could, once they had made themselves, come back for their parents (like Hansel and Gretel or Tom Thumb)" (IoanisNuguet).
"Spartacus & Cassandra could not be a pretext for observing the Rroms in French shanty towns. That was not the film I wanted to make. I wanted to make a film at ‘child level'. I had to find a form in which their viewpoints, their feelings, their thoughts could become time and image, jostle together, have a poetic embodiment. (...) Spartacus & Cassandra therefore naturally took the form of a tale. A tale which would also be an anti-tale or an inverted tale: the question for them is not one of saving their parents, something they were already trying to do, but one of saving themselves. With the dream that one day they could, once they had made themselves, come back for their parents (like Hansel and Gretel or Tom Thumb)" (IoanisNuguet).