Joyeux Noël
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Film · TMDB
7.4France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…
Released: 2005-11-09116 minDir: Christian CarionDrama, War, Romance, History
Cast
- Diane Kruger as Anna Sörensen
- Benno Fürmann as Nikolaus Sprink
- Guillaume Canet as Audebert
- Gary Lewis as Palmer
- Dany Boon as Ponchel
- Daniel Brühl as Horstmayer
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
7.6/10
33,037 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
74%
Metacritic
70/100
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 6 wins & 12 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Christian Carion
- Written by
- Christian Carion
- Produced by
- Christophe Rossignon, Benjamin Herrmann
- Starring
- Benno Fürmann , Guillaume Canet , Daniel Brühl , Diane Kruger , Gary Lewis , Alex Ferns
- Cinematography
- Walther Vanden Ende
- Edited by
- Judith Rivière Kawa, Andrea Sedlácková
- Music by
- Philippe Rombi
- Distributed by
- UGC Distribution (France), Senator Film (Germany) , Sony Pictures Classics (through Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International ; United Kingdom), Big Bang Media (Belgium), Media Pro Pictures (Romania)
- Release date
- 9 November 2005 ( 2005-11-09 )
- Running time
- 116 minutes
- Countries
- France, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Romania, Japan
- Languages
Key dates
- Published
- 1 December 2006
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- war film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- French
- Main subject
- fraternization
- Director
- Christian Carion
- Screenwriter
- Christian Carion
- Composer
- Philippe Rombi
- Cinematographer
- Walther van den Ende
- Narrative location
- Western Front
Article
Joyeux Noël means Merry Christmas in French. For other uses, see Christmas (disambiguation) and Merry Christmas (disambiguation) Joyeux Noël (English: Merry Christmas) is a 2005 war drama film based on the Christmas truce of December 1914, depicted through the eyes of French, British, and German soldiers. It was written and directed by Christian Carion, and screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
The film, which includes one of the last appearances of Ian Richardson before his death, was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards. It is a fictionalised account of an actual event that took place in December 1914, when Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, sent the lead singer of the Berlin Imperial Opera company on a solo visit to the front line. Singing by the tenor, Walter Kirchhoff, to the 120th and 124th Württemberg regiments led Scottish soldiers in their trenches to stand up and applaud.