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Cafard

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Cafard
Directed byJan Bultheel
Written byJan Bultheel
Music byHans Helewaut[1]
Production
companies
Tarantula Belgique
Tondo Films
Topkapi Films[2]
Distributed byEurozoom
Release dates
  • September 23, 2015 (2015-09-23) (Belgium)
  • December 12, 2015 (2015-12-12) (France)
Running time
92 minutes[3]
CountriesFrance
Netherlands
Belgium
LanguagesFrench
Dutch

Cafard is a 2015 French-Dutch-Belgian animated war film written and directed by Jan Bultheel.[4] The film tells the story of a boxer, Jean Mordant (based on the real-life Henri Herd, known as Constant le Marin), who joins the Belgian Expeditionary Corps which is sent to the Russian Empire during World War I in order to avenge the rape of his daughter by German soldiers in Occupied Belgium.[5]

Voice cast

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Role French dub Dutch dub
Jean Mordant Benoît Magimel Wim Willaert
Victor Jean-Hugues Anglade Sebastien Dewaele
Jelena Dimitrieva Doctorow Julie Gayet Dinara Droukarova
Guido Maarten Ketels
Édouard Coppenole Benoit Gob

Release and reception

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The film was theatrically released in Belgium on 23 September 2015, and in France on 12 December.[2] It grossed $20,771 in Belgium,[6] and received positive reviews from critics.[5][7]

Accolades

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Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Magritte Awards 6 February 2016 Best Flemish Film Cafard Nominated

References

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  1. ^ Cafard at Soundtrack.net. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b Cafard at UniFrance. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  3. ^ Cafard at Cineuropa – the best of European cinema. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  4. ^ Didier, Stiers (23 September 2015) "Cafard", l’un des rendez-vous de la rentrée. (in French). Le Soir. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  5. ^ a b Chang, Justin (5 October 2015) Busan Film Review: ‘Cafard’. Variety. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  6. ^ Cafard at Box Office Mojo, an IMDb company. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  7. ^ Kroustallis, Vassilis (30 September 2016) Cafard Review: Capturing Humanism. Zippy Frames. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
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