The daily life of a group of Africans in Paris, filmed with lucidity and humor by a film-maker from the Ivory Coast.

A group of African students in Paris are reaching the end of their studies. Should they return to their newly independent homelands or should they try to forge a home for themselves in a hostile and indifferent France?
Among them, a young student returns home to the Ivory Coast after receiving his degree in Paris with the hope of perhaps becoming an ambassador one day. But he is disillusioned by the other young men he meets who are also returning from Paris.

In a very moving and atmospheric film, clearly influenced by the French New Wave, Ecaré beautifully captures the radicalism, sensuousness and ennui of the late 1960s Latin Quarter, as well as his characters' sense of displacement and isolation.

starring
Hervé Denis, Claudia Chazel, Henri Duparc, Sékou Camara, Bitty Moro, Michael Lonsdale, Assaf, La Kotta, Marjatta Anneli, Taminy Félix, Pierre Cheriza, J.P. Mareschal

a film by Désiré ÉCARÉ

Ivory Coast / France, 1968, Fiction, 42. mins

First film (short narrative)

Original Title: Concerto pour un exil
English Title: Concerto for an exile


Duration: 42 mins (31 mins, Cité Films)

Sound Mix
Mono

Color
Black and White

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1

Negative Format
16 mm

Cinematographic Process
Spherical

Printed Film Format
35 mm

Production countries
* Ivory Coast
* France


Cast
Hervé DENIS
Claudie CHAZEL
Bitty MORO
Henri DUPARC
Sékou CAMARA

Director
* Désiré ECARÉ

Screenwriter
* Désiré Ecare

Dialogist
* Désiré Ecare

Author of the Comment
* Désiré Ecaré

CINEMATOGRAPHERS
* Toussaint Bruschini
* Tristan Burgess

SOUND
* Lucien Girault
* Pierre Lenoir

Composers
* Pierre Cheriza (Pierre CHERIZA)
* Gilles Dayvis (Gill DAYVIS)
* African Music collected by O.C.O.R.A.

Editor
* Désiré Ecare

Production Company
* Films de la Lagune
* Argos-Films

WORLD SALES
Cité Films (France)
56, rue Perronet - 92200 Neuilly sur Seine, France
Tel : +33 1 82 64 52 98
www.citefilms.com/movie/concerto-pour-un-exil


* Special Jury Prize /// CARTHAGE Film Festival 1968 (Tunisia)

* Selection - Critics Week- Semaine internationale de la critique /// Cannes Film Festival 1968 (France)