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Cafard

Cafard is a 2015 French-Dutch-Belgian animated war film written and directed by Jan Bultheel. The film tells the story of a boxer, Jean Mordant, 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.

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Cafard
Directed byJan Bultheel
Written byJan Bultheel
Music byHans Helewaut1
Production
companies
Tarantula Belgique
Superprod Animation2
Tondo Films
Topkapi Films3
Distributed byEurozoom
Release dates
  • September 23, 2015 (2015-09-23) (Belgium)
  • December 12, 2015 (2015-12-12) (France)
Running time
92 minutes4
CountriesFrance
Netherlands
Belgium
LanguagesFrench
Dutch

Cafard is a 2015 French-Dutch-Belgian animated war film written and directed by Jan Bultheel.5 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.6

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.3 It grossed $20,771 in Belgium,7 and received positive reviews from critics.68

Accolades

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

References

  1. Cafard at Soundtrack.net. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  2. Tartaglione, Nancy (February 19, 2015). "UTA Signs French 'Song Of The Sea' Producers Superprod". Deadline Hollywood.
  3. Cafard at UniFrance. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  4. Cafard at Cineuropa – the best of European cinema. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  5. 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.
  6. Chang, Justin (5 October 2015) Busan Film Review: ‘Cafard’. Variety. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  7. Cafard at Box Office Mojo, an IMDb company. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  8. Kroustallis, Vassilis (30 September 2016). "Cafard Review: Capturing Humanism". ZippyFrames. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017.
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