Dante 01 (2008)

Director:

Marc Caro

Writers:

Marc Caro (screenplay)
Pierre Bordage (screenplay)

Release Date:

2 January 2008 (France)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01...

Plot Keywords:

Number In Title

Cast

Lambert Wilson	...	Saint Georges
Linh Dan Pham	...	Elisa
Dominique Pinon	...	César
Yann Collette	...	Attila
Bruno Lochet	...	Bouddha
François Levantal	...	Lazare
Simona Maicanescu	...	Perséphone
Gérald Laroche	...	Charon
François Hadji-Lazaro	...	Moloch
Lotfi Yahya Jedidi	...	Raspoutine
Dominique Bettenfeld	...	BR
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yan Dron	...	Killed by entity
Antonin Maurel	...	CR

Directed by
Marc Caro

Writing credits
Marc Caro		(screenplay)
Pierre Bordage		(screenplay)

Produced by
Richard Grandpierre	....	producer

Original Music by
Raphael Elig
Eric Wenger

Cinematography by
Jean Poisson

Film Editing by
Linda Attab
Sébastien Prangère

Casting by
Olivier Carbone

Production Design by
Bertrand Seitz

Costume Design by
Chattoune
Fabien Esnard-Lacombe
Fab

Makeup Department
Jérémy B. Caravita	....	special makeup effects artist
Denis Gastou	....	special makeup effects artist
Annabelle Petit	....	special makeup effects artist
Erwan Simon	....	special makeup effects artist
Jean-Christophe Spadaccini	....	special makeup effects artist

Production Management
Nicolas Dancel	....	assistant unit manager
Frédéric Doniguian	....	production manager
Edouard Dupont	....	unit production manager
Nathalie Lampre	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Franck Vestiel	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Octavio Tapia	....	on-set propman

Sound Department
Vincent Arnardi	....	sound re-recording mixer
Gérard Hardy	....	sound editor
Marion Lorthioir	....	post-synchronisation
Vivien Mergot	....	boom operator
Julien Perez	....	sound re-recording mixer
Loïc Prian	....	sound editor
Nicolas Provost	....	sound

Special Effects by
Olivier Marais	....	special effects
Pascal Molina	....	special effects
Julien Poncet de la Grave	....	special effects coordinator

Visual Effects by
Djelloul Bekri	....	sequence supervisor: BUF
Julien Buisseret	....	digital artist
Florent Cadel	....	digital artist: BUF
Olivier Cauwet	....	digital artist: BUF
Nicolas Chevallier	....	visual effects supervisor
Melanie Cussac	....	visual effects coordinator
Aurelien Faure	....	digital artist: BUF
Audrey Ferrara	....	digital artist: BUF
Nicolas Jauffret	....	software research & development: BUF
Anne-Gaelle Jolly	....	software engineer: research and development
Fabien Legal	....	visual effects
Christophe Lucotte	....	color grader
Nicolas Maillard	....	digital artist: BUF
Sandra Millon	....	visual effects coordinator: BUF
Eddy Moussa	....	digital artist: BUF
Xavier Perol	....	digital artist: BUF
Jerome Platteaux	....	digital artist
Sylvain Potel	....	sequence supervisor: BUF
Clement Rambach	....	software engineer: research and development
Vanesse Simon	....	visual effects producer
Benjamin Venancie	....	sequence supervisor
David Verbeke	....	digital artist
Christophe Verspieren	....	software engineer: research and development
Dominique Vidal	....	technical director: BUF
Zhipeng Xing	....	digital artist: BUF

Stunts
Alexandre Cauderlier	....	stunts wire effects
Alexandre Cauderlier	....	stunts
Patrick Cauderlier	....	stunt supervisor
Patrick Cauderlier	....	stunts
Yan Dron	....	co-stunt coordinator
Yan Dron	....	stunt double: Lambert Wilson
Karim Hocini	....	assistant stunt coordinator
Cauderlier Kevin	....	stunts
Cauderlier Kevin	....	wire effects
Laurent Larrieu	....	stunt diver
Laurent Larrieu	....	stunts
Yoni Roch	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Pierre-Loup Corvez	....	key grip
Christophe Guyon	....	focus puller
Gary Pachany	....	first assistant camera: "b" camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Agnès Beziers	....	wardrobe
Sandra Picchiottino-beguery	....	costume assistant

Editorial Department
Denis Bedlow	....	assistant editor
Sébastien de Sainte Croix	....	assistant editor
Elsa Fernández	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Diane Brasseur	....	script supervisor
Gomes de Almeida Natasha	....	assistant script supervisor
Pierre Selinger	....	production attorney

Production Companies

• Eskwad
• Wild Bunch (co-production)
• Canal+ (participation)
• Studio Canal

Distributors

• Bir Film (2007) (Turkey) (all media)
• Cinema Mondo (2008) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Kinowelt Home Entertainment (2008) (Germany) (DVD)
• NonStop Entertainment (2008) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Weinstein Company, The (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• Wild Bunch Distribution (2008) (France) (theatrical)

Special Effects

• BUF

Other Companies

• Wild Bunch  international sales

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Germany:16 | Finland:K-15 | France:Unrated (with warning)

Company:

Eskwad

Fantastic movie.

I had the pleasure of watching this movie yesterday and wasn't disappointed. I had been waiting for Caro's next work with great anticipation and I consider this movie to be a success on every level, with the only disappointment being that it didn't seem to have been released in many theaters in France, I hope it'll fare better in other countries.

This movie isn't an epic by any means. The story takes place in a psychiatric facility orbiting around a burning planet deep in space, and populated by little more than a dozen people, so the scale is pretty intimist. The patients of this space hospital are all death row inmates who have agreed to serve as guinea pigs for behavior-changing treatments in order to win a few years of life. The routines of the whole compound are disrupted when a new patient with intriguing abilities (Lambert) arrives, escorted by a new doctor (the beautiful Linh Dan Pham) ordered to test new treatments on the inmates.

You will soon realize upon watching the first few minutes of this movie that everything that happens in it is a metaphor, and that's all I will say about that in order not to spoil anything.

I have nothing but praise for all the elements of this movie. The actors are top notch (especially the inmates), as well as the direction, the art direction and the story, which all together manage with great success the most important aspect of any movie of that kind: to suspend our disbelief. The immersion was complete and I have not for one second questioned the how's and why's of the setting. The movie didn't feel too long or too short, and the ending was satisfying and brought a sufficient amount of closure while still leaving many aspects of the story open for personal interpretation.

Overall a great experience that I would recommend to anyone.