Dheepan
When the war continues to rage in your heart and mind
Overview
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
- Revenue
- $7,704,357
- Production
- France 2 Cinéma, Why Not Productions, Page 114
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Cast
Antonythasan Jesuthasan
Dheepan
Kalieaswari Srinivasan
Yalini
Claudine Vinasithamby
Illayaal
Vincent Rottiers
Brahim
Marc Zinga
Youssouf
Faouzi Bensaïdi
Monsieur Habib
Bass Dhem
Azziz
Franck Falise
Hall C Guard
Joséphine de Meaux
School Principal
Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux
The Lawyer
Vasanth Selvam
Colonel Cheran
Tassadit Mandi
The Lady on the Stairs
Sandor Funtek
Guard #1
Aymen Saïdi
Guard #2
Soufiane Guerrab
Guard #3
Jana Bittnerová
Crew
- Director
- Jacques Audiard
- Cinematography
- Éponine Momenceau
- Composer
- Nicolas Jaar
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Reno
December 4, 2016
**Far from the home, but the trouble's not over.** The renowned French filmmaker, Jacques Audiard back with this new sensational film. This time he has chosen to tell us the story of a Sri Lankan Tamil Eelam freedom fighter who had fled to France after the war, followed by his struggles in the new place. The entire film was in Tamil language, but there some French dialogues too. I have been waiting for this, even after I got many opportunities, I had postponed them for some reasons. Finally, …
CinemaSerf
April 6, 2024
More like out of the "Dheepan" and into the fire! He (Jesuthasan Anthonythasan) is a Tamil separatist on Sri Lanka who is having to come to terms with the fact that their cause is lost. Fearing persecution, he decides to head to France where he can claim asylum. Along the way, he encounters "Yalini" (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and her daughter "Illayaal" (Claudine Visasithamby) and concluding that all would do better if they claimed to be a family, try to seek safety. Oddly enough, their lack of Fr…