The Man Who Cried (2000)

A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.

Director:

Sally Potter

Writer:

Sally Potter

Stars:

Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Oleg Yankovskiy

3 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Christina Ricci	...	Suzie
Oleg Yankovskiy	...	Father
Claudia Lander-Duke	...	Young Suzie
Danny Scheinmann	...	Man in Suit
Anna Tzelniker	...	Mother of Man in Suit
Barry Davis	...	Man in Village
Thom Osborn	...	Man in Village
Frank Chersky	...	Man in Village
Daniel Hart	...	Man in Village
Peter Majer	...	Man in Village
Hana Maria Pravda	...	Grandmother
Ayala Meir	...	Child
Abraham Hassan	...	Child
Lloyd Martin	...	Child
Uri Meir	...	Child

Storyline

In this historical drama with music, a gifted singer (Oleg Yankovsky) from a Jewish village in Russia travels to the United States in 1927, leaving behind his young daughter Fegele (Claudia Lander-Duke). Father has promised his family that he'll send for Fegele as soon as he can, but authorities make life hard for the Jewish population, and Fegele is forced to flee with relatives to England. Fegele is adopted by a British family, which renames her Suzie and raises her with little acknowledgment of her ethnic heritage. As she grows to adulthood, Suzie (Christina Ricci) becomes a gifted vocalist and gets a job singing in a nigh club revue in Paris. Before she leaves England, her adopted family presents Suzie with a picture of her father, still believed to be living in America, and she decides she will go to the United States some day and find him. In Paris, Suzie makes friends with Lola (Cate Blanchett), a Russian showgirl in the market for a rich husband. Lola becomes involved with ...

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Plot Keywords:

gypsy | village | russian | dancing | england | 

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Genres:

Drama | Music | Romance | War

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sexuality

Details

Official Sites:

Official Site

Country:

UK France

Language:

English Yiddish Russian French Italian Romany Romanian

Release Date:

8 December 2000 (UK)

Also Known As:

Čovjek koji je plakao

Filming Locations:

Bourne Woods, Farnham, Surrey, England, UK

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$123,577, 27 May 2001

Gross USA:

$739,583

Company Credits

Production Co:

Canal+, Universal Pictures, Adventure Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min 97 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital SDDS DTS

Color:

Black and White Color (Duboicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Place de la Concorde was used by the production as background for some scenes. This came after several weeks of negotiation between the director and producers of the movie, and the mayor of Paris, since the location is rarely closed for movie production. The scenes were shot after midnight and before 6:00 p.m.

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Goofs

In the scene where Suzie is following Cesare and his friends on her bike, they go through a passage where you can see the Eiffel Tower in the background and it is lit up. However, the lights were not added to the Tower until 1986.

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Quotes

Cesar: It's better to run and live than to stay and die.

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Connections

References Pas de deux (1968)

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Soundtracks

Je crois entendre encore (Yiddish Version)
from "The Pearl Fishers"
by Georges Bizet
Performed by Salvatore Licitra and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Concertmaster Vasko Vassilev

User Reviews

Huh?

The film, though highly predictable, is not anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be. It's not boring unless your attention span is that of the typical Hollywood absorbed moron. The acting isn't anything worse than the typical product of that filmworld - though it is slightly better. The story, also, is not a completely typical waste. Now that I've mentioned all of these things about the typical, that is unfortunately exactly what this film is: extremely typical beyond comprehension. Everything, down to the lame, supposedly romantic, slow motion scene of Johnny Depp riding his horse, has been done 3049090348 hundred thousand times before. Most of the story makes a remote amount of sense, except that the Russian soldiers who force Ricci's family to leave Russia for some reason that I must have missed are peaking Polish. Well, in the end, since the composition is pretty interesting, and the music is great, it is worth seeing - unless you have no idea about these things and would rather watch Bruce Willis blow things up.