Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Reda Kateb | ... | Django Reinhardt | |
Cécile de France | ... | Louise de Klerk (as Cécile De France) | |
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Bea Palya | ... | Naguine Reinhardt (as Beata Palya) |
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Bimbam Merstein | ... | Negros Reinhardt |
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Gabriel Mireté | ... | Lévêque / La Plume |
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Johnny Montreuil | ... | Joseph Reinhardt / Nin-Nin |
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Vincent Frade | ... | Fouad / Tam Tam |
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Raphaël Dever | ... | Vola |
Patrick Mille | ... | Charles Delaunay | |
Xavier Beauvois | ... | Médecin STO | |
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Esther Comar | ... | Stella, l'assistante Hot-Club |
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Jan Henrik Stahlberg | ... | Doctor Jazz |
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Hugues Jourdain | ... | Rossignol |
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Hono Winterstein | ... | Toto Hoffman |
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Etienne Timbo Mehrstein | ... | Timbo Hoffman (as Etienne Mehrstein) |
Django Reinhardt was one of the most brilliant pioneers of European jazz and the father of Gypsy Swing. "Django" grippingly portrays one chapter in the musician's eventful life and is a poignant tale of survival. Constant danger, flight and the atrocities committed against his family could not make him stop playing. Written by Berlinale
This is story of an exceptional artist stuck in Nazi-occupied France and the treatment of his community of gypsies in the form of an adventure to escape the country. The most enjoyable bits are those in which he plays music with his band in front of Nazi or french audiences, where his style and technique transpires exceptionally well and the people are lifted to a trance. However, the subject of the movie is grim and filmed in no special way. Django Reinhardt is caught between the between a rock and a hard place and though the tale is told like an adventure, one feels frustrated by the melancholy and the hardship. No more than he of course!