Dheepan
Sign in to saveDheepan is a 2015 French crime drama film directed by Jacques Audiard and co-written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, and Noé Debré. The film was partly inspired by Montesquieu's Persian Letters, as well as the 1971 film Straw Dogs, with guidance from Antonythasan Jesuthasan, who stars as the title character.
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6.9Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
Released: 2015-08-26115 minDir: Jacques AudiardCrime, Drama
Cast
- Antonythasan Jesuthasan as Dheepan
- Kalieaswari Srinivasan as Yalini
- Claudine Vinasithamby as Illayaal
- Vincent Rottiers as Brahim
- Marc Zinga as Youssouf
- Faouzi Bensaïdi as Monsieur Habib
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Dheepan
- Film.image
- Dheepan poster.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- Jacques Audiard
- Film.story
- Jacques Audiard Antonythasan Jesuthasan (uncredited)
- Film.starring
- Antonythasan Jesuthasan
- Film.music
- Nicolas Jaar
- Film.cinematography
- Eponine Momenceau
- Film.editing
- Juliette Welfling
- Film.distributor
- UGC Distribution
- Film.runtime
- 115 minutes
- Film.country
- France
- Film.budget
- €8 million
Key dates
- Published
- 22 October 2015
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Award
- Palme d'Or
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- France
- Original language
- French
- Director
- Jacques Audiard
- Composer
- Nicolas Jaar
- Producer
- Pascal Caucheteux
- Narrative location
- Paris
- Duration
- +109
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Dheepan is a 2015 French crime drama film directed by Jacques Audiard and co-written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, and Noé Debré. The film was partly inspired by Montesquieu's Persian Letters, as well as the 1971 film Straw Dogs, with guidance from Antonythasan Jesuthasan, who stars as the title character.
The film tells the story of three Tamil refugees who flee the civil war-ravaged Sri Lanka and come to France, in the hope of reconstructing their lives. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It was later shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
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2015 crime drama films2015 English-language films2015 films2015 French films2015 French-language films2015 Indian films2015 Tamil-language filmsEnglish-language crime drama filmsEnglish-language French filmsFilms about immigration to FranceFilms about the Sri Lankan civil warFilms directed by Jacques Audiard