Les Oiseaux du ciel
2006 Drama   
Director: Eliane de Latour
Starring: Fraser James, Djédjé Apali, Marie-Josée Croze, Sara Martins, Lucien Jean-Baptiste
 
Summary
Shad and Otho leave their home in Abidjan on the Ivory Coast to start a new life in Europe.  There, they hope to make their fortune and return to their families as heroes, laden with riches.  But things do not quite go as they planned. Arriving at the Spanish border, Otho is captured by the police and sent back to his home country, where he is ill-received by his family.  Meanwhile, Shad manages to evade the police and, after several harrowing escapades, he finally reaches England...



Credits
  • Director: Eliane de Latour
  • Script: Eliane de Latour
  • Photo: Renaud Chassaing
  • Cast: Fraser James (Shad), Djédjé Apali (Otho), Marie-Josée Croze (Tango), Sara Martins (Olga), Lucien Jean-Baptiste (Tetanos), Tella Kpomahou (Pelagie), Malik Zidi (Bruno), Kad Merad (Oncle de Tango), Agnès Soral (La Blanche), Michel Boheri (père de Shad), Jean-Baptiste Anoumon (Goethe), Nick Bartlett (Gangster), Bass Dhem (La pagaille), Houda Echouafni (Girlfriend), James Gerard (Biff), Dioucounda Koma (Zoom), Moussa Sanogo (Reggae Man), Imotep Tshilombo (Joe Zaza)
  • Country: France / UK
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 90 min
  • Aka: Birds of Heaven; Après l'océan



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