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The Sea Wall is a french film of genre Drama directed by Rithy Panh released in USA on 1 january 2008 with Isabelle Huppert
The Sea Wall (2009)
Un barrage contre le Pacifique
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Add to a movie listThe Sea Wall (French: Un barrage contre le Pacifique) is a 2008 film by Cambodian director Rithy Panh in a French/Cambodian/Belgian co-production. The film opened on 7 January 2009 in France. It was adapted from the 1950 novel The Sea Wall by Marguerite Duras. The novel had previously been adapted as This Angry Age by René Clément in 1958.
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En Indochine française, au début des années 1930, une veuve, madame Dufresne, s’évertue à reconstruire des barrages pour protéger ses rizières des typhons de la mer de Chine tandis que ses enfants Joseph et Suzanne ne songent qu’à quitter leur misérable existence et le bungalow familial implanté au beau milieu de plaines marécageuses insalubres pour tenter de trouver une vie meilleure à la ville.Actors
Isabelle Huppert
(Madame Dufresne, la mère)
Gaspard Ulliel
(Joseph)
Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey
(Suzanne)
Stéphane Rideau
(Agosti)
Randal Douc
(Monsieur Jo)
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