Django
Competition 2017
FRA 2017
by: Etienne Comar
Reda Kateb
Django
Competition 2017
FRA 2017
by: Etienne Comar
Beata Palya, Bim Bam Merstein, Reda Kateb
Django
Competition 2017
FRA 2017
by: Etienne Comar
Reda Kateb, Cécile de France
Django
Competition 2017
FRA 2017
by: Etienne Comar
Raphaël Dever, Reda Kateb, Gabriel Mirété
Django
Competition 2017
FRA 2017
by: Etienne Comar
Cécile de France, Reda Kateb
Django
Competition 2017
FRA 2017
by: Etienne Comar
Reda Kateb
Django
Competition 2017
FRA 2017
by: Etienne Comar
Etienne Comar
Feb 9, 2017Friedrichstadt-Palast
Full house at the first screening 2017.
Competition – Django
Feb 9, 2017Friedrichstadt-Palast
Full house at the first screening 2017.
Competition – Django – Opening Gala
Feb 9, 2017Dieter Kosslick, Etienne Comar
The Festival Director and the director of the opening film on stage of the Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Competition – Django – Opening Gala
Feb 9, 2017Etienne Comar, Reda Kateb, Cécile de France
The director and the two main actors on their way to the Photo Call.
Competition – Django
Feb 9, 2017Etienne Comar, Reda Kateb, Cécile de France
The main actor at the Photo Call.
Competition – Django
Feb 9, 2017Cécile de France
The actress at the Press Conference.
Competition – Django
Feb 9, 2017Cécile de France
The actress arriving at the Red Carpet.
Competition – Django – Opening Gala
Feb 9, 2017Bim Bam Merstein, Reda Kateb
The actors on the Red Carpet.
Competition – Django – Opening Gala
Feb 9, 2017In the limelight
The film team in the Berlinale Palast.
Competition – Django – Opening Gala
Feb 9, 2017Reda Kateb
On the way into the cinema hall.
Competition – Django – Opening Gala
Feb 9, 2017Bim Bam Merstein, Reda Kateb, Jan Henrik Stahlberg
The actors in the Berlinale Palast.
Competition – Django – Opening Gala
Feb 9, 2017Dieter Kosslick, film team
Before the screening in the Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Competition – Django
Feb 9, 2017Reda Kateb, Cécile de France
The main actors in the Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Competition – Django
Feb 9, 2017Etienne Comar, Reda Kateb
The director and the main actor in the Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Competition – Django
Feb 11, 2017Etienne Comar
The director of the 2017 Berlinale opening film in the Bundesplatz-Kino.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Django
Feb 11, 2017Etienne Comar
The director of the Competition film during Q&A.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Django
Feb 11, 2017Chris Kraus
The German director was patron of the screening in the Bundesplatz-Kino.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Django
Reda Kateb (Actor), Etienne Comar (Director, Screenwriter), Cécile de France (Actress), Moderation: Anatol Weber
Press Conference at full lengthFrance 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. In his directorial debut, Etienne Comar portrays an unconventional artist and free spirit whose life is as improvised as his music. Faced with the question of whether or not to allow his art to be misused for politcal purposes, he has to make a decision of vital significance.
by
Etienne Comar
France 2017
French
117’ · Colour
Reda Kateb (Django Reinhardt)Cécile de France (Louise)Beata Palya (Naguine)Bim Bam Merstein (Negros)Gabriel Mirété (La Plume)Vincent Frade (Tam Tam)Johnny Montreuil (Joseph Reinhardt)Raphaël Dever (Vola)Patrick Mille (Charlie Delaunay)Alex Brandemuhl (Hans Biber)Ulrich Brandhoff (Hammerstein)
After graduating from the Parisian film school La Fémis, he began working at Erato Films as a production manager on films including Boris Godunov by Andrzej Zulawski and Van Gogh by Maurice Pialat. He then produced 15 feature films with Playtime and Vendôme Production before, in 2009, moving to Arches Films to work as a screenwriter and producer on titles such as Des hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men) by Xavier Beauvois and Mon roi (My King) by Maïwenn. Django is his first feature film as a director.
Filmography (as director)2017 Django
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2017
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