Directed by:
Etienne ComarScreenplay:
Etienne ComarCinematography:
Christophe BeaucarneComposer:
Warren EllisCast:
Reda Kateb, Cécile de France, Bea Palya, Gabriel Mireté, Patrick Mille, Xavier Beauvois, Esther Comar, Hugues Jourdain, Alex Brendemühl, Ulrich Brandhoff (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
France in 1943 during the German occupation. Every night, guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt delights Parisian audiences with his witty, life-affirming 'gypsy swing' music. Whilst many other Romany people are finding themselves the target of racist persecution and being murdered in concentration camps, Django believes himself to be safe due to his popularity – until agents of the Nazi propaganda machine demand that he goes on tour to Germany in order to counteract the influence of 'negro music' from the USA. Django Reinhardt refuses. One of his Parisian admirers helps him, his pregnant wife and his mother to hide out in a village close to the Swiss border; here he meets members of his large extended family who are also on the run. But when he tries to cross Lake Geneva into Switzerland with his wife and his mother, the Nazis are hot on his heels. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Reda Kateb
France
Best movies:
The Specials (2019)
A Prophet (2009)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Cécile de France
Belgium
Best movies:
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
Lost Illusions (2021)
The Kid with a Bike (2011)
Gabriel Mireté
Best movies:
Django (2017)
Mystery at the Élysée (2018) (TV movie)
Patrick Mille
Portugal
Best movies:
The Count of Monte-Cristo (2024)
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023)
The Three Musketeers: Milady (2023)
Xavier Beauvois
France
Best movies:
Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die (1995)
Ponette (1996)
The Wind of the Night (1999)
Esther Comar
Best movies:
Django (2017)
Hugues Jourdain
Best movies:
Django (2017)
Lover for a Day (2017)
Alex Brendemühl
Spain
Best movies:
El perqué de tot plegat (1994)
Among Wolves (2011)
7 Years (2016)
Ulrich Brandhoff
East Germany
Best movies:
Balloon (2018)
Naked Among Wolves (2015) (TV movie)
A Hidden Life (2019)
Antoine Laurent
Best movies:
The Intouchables (2011)
Intimate Enemies (2007)
Redheads (2010)
Aloïse Sauvage
Best movies:
Cold War (2018)
The Specials (2019)
BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
Nicolas de Lavergne
Best movies:
The Edge of the Blade (2023)
Remi, Nobody's Boy (2018)
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Maximilien Poullein
France
Best movies:
Don't Worry, I'm Fine (2006)
Sink or Swim (2018)
Come What May (2015)
Pierre-François Garel
Best movies:
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Django (2017)
Eden (2014)