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The Black Beach (2001)

The Black Beach (2001)

Drama
Release Date: 2001, April 8
Directors: Michel Piccoli
Countries: Switzerland, France, Poland
Production: Telewizja Polska, Heritage Films
Cast: Armen Godel, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska, Roger Jendly, Dominique Blanc, Jacek Borkowski, Jade Fortineau, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Nathalie Eno, Ignacy Gogolewski

Overview:

An exhausted militant wants to take a break from the incessant frenzy surrounding him. His country’s dictatorship is on its last legs and chaos reigns. His wife Sylvie leaves their country for France. She writes about the new democracy struggling to be born back home. His daughter Joyce must hide out in the deserted childhood home in the solitude and infinity of the Black Beach. Several adversaries – the militia of a hazy regime in his native land and the Paris police – wage a strange game of chess in which he is the pawn. Threats abound and he’s haunted by his past, his fears, dead friends. He has three allies: his wife, his daughter, and an old girlfriend from his fighting days.