Ceasefire

2016

French

6.1

♡ 4

60%

Emmanuel Courcol Director

Romain Duris as Georges Laffont

Céline Sallette as Hélène

Philippe Pierrard as Labadou

Julie-Marie Parmentier as Madeleine

In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfare, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa. In the vast territories of Upper Volta he - with the help of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War - try to recruit the villagers as labor for plantations in Ghana. But his adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Paris desperate to find his place in the world.

The Big Hit

♡ 4

Emmanuel Courcol Director

Kad Merad as Étienne Carboni

Yvon Martin as Le chef de détention

Adama Bathily as Le jeune surveillant

Philippe Risler as Le machiniste de l'Odéon

Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive.