Cafard

Cafard
Directed byJan Bultheel
Written byJan Bultheel
Music byHans Helewaut[1]
Production
companies
Tarantula Belgique
Tondo Films
Topkapi Films[2]
Distributed byEurozoom
Release dates
  • September 23, 2015 (2015-09-23) (Belgium)
  • December 12, 2015 (2015-12-12) (France)
Running time
92 minutes[3]
CountriesFrance
Netherlands
Belgium
LanguagesFrench
Dutch

Cafard is a 2015 French-Dutch-Belgian animated war film written and directed by Jan Bultheel.[4] The film tells the story of a boxer, Jean Mordant (based on the real-life Henri Herd, known as Constant le Marin), who joins the Belgian Expeditionary Corps which is sent to the Russian Empire during World War I in order to avenge the rape of his daughter by German soldiers in Occupied Belgium.[5]

Voice cast

Role French dub Dutch dub
Jean Mordant Benoît Magimel Wim Willaert
Victor Jean-Hugues Anglade Sebastien Dewaele
Jelena Dimitrieva Doctorow Julie Gayet Dinara Droukarova
Guido Maarten Ketels
Édouard Coppenole Benoit Gob

Release and reception

The film was theatrically released in Belgium on 23 September 2015, and in France on 12 December.[2] It grossed $20,771 in Belgium,[6] and received positive reviews from critics.[5][7]

Accolades

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Magritte Awards 6 February 2016 Best Flemish Film Cafard Nominated

References

  1. ^ Cafard at Soundtrack.net. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b Cafard at UniFrance. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  3. ^ Cafard at Cineuropa – the best of European cinema. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  4. ^ Didier, Stiers (23 September 2015) "Cafard", l’un des rendez-vous de la rentrée. (in French). Le Soir. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  5. ^ a b Chang, Justin (5 October 2015) Busan Film Review: ‘Cafard’. Variety. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  6. ^ Cafard at Box Office Mojo, an IMDb company. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  7. ^ Kroustallis, Vassilis (30 September 2016) Cafard Review: Capturing Humanism. Zippy Frames. Retrieved 28 May 2021.


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