2009
Belgium - France
104min - 35 mm - 1.85 - Color - Drama comedy
Original language : French
Cast
Thierry Lhermitte
Milan Mauger
Benoît Cauden
Marianne Basler
Credits
Director: Yves Hanchard
Producer : Rosanne Van Haesebrouck
Production Company : To Do Today Productions
Co-producer : Martine de Clermont Tonnerre
Co-production Company : Mact Productions / Frakas productions / RTBF
Screenplay : Yves Hanchard
Director of photography : Remon Fromont
Sound : Jean-François Priester
Music : George van Dam
Editing : Sandrine Deegen
Festivals & Awards
2009 :
Giffoni IFF
Chungmoro IFF
World Film Fest in Montreal
"Schlingel" international film festival for children and young audience
French Film Fest in Miami & Boca Raton
Chicago IFF
Französische Filmtage Tubingen
Mumbai IFF
2010 :
Vienna French Speaking Films Festival
Richmond French films Fest
Giffoni Albania
2011 :
Film Festival for Children and Youth in Armenia
Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best scriptwriter, Best Young Actor : Milan Mauger
1955 – a boarding school in Belgium. Laurent Matagne (17 years old), thinks he recognizes in his French teacher nicknamed « Vapour », his father who disappeared during an air raid in 1940. Vapour is eccentric, mysterious, disturbing and brilliant and gives his passion for literature so strongly that Matagne wants to become a writer. Matagne and his friend Boulette decide to hold an investigation. As they build a plot in order to confound Vapour, Matagne devises at the same time his first novel.
1955 - un internat en Belgique. Laurent Matagne (17 ans), croit discerner sous l’identité de son professeur de français surnommé « Vapeur », son père disparu lors d’un raid aérien pendant la guerre 40. Vapeur est excentrique, mystérieux, inquiétant, brillant et il communique vite à Laurent sa passion pour la littérature, au point de susciter chez lui une vocation d’écrivain. Matagne et son ami Boulette décident de mener l’enquête. Alors qu’ils échafaudent un plan pour confondre Vapeur, Matagne s’attèle à son premier roman.
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