POLA X
SYNOPSIS
Pierre, a young and rich writer lives with his beautiful mother in Normandy and is soon going to marry Lucie. Everthing changes when Isabelle shows up and proclaims to be his sister. A dramatical triangle beyond all taboos is the result.
| DIRECTOR | Leos Carax |
| YEAR | 1998 |
| STATUS | completed |
| FESTIVALS AWARDS | Cannes International Filmfetival 1999 |
| CAST | Guilliaume Depardieu Katarina Golubeva Catherine Deneuve |
| CO PRODUCTION WITH | Arena Films in co-production with Theo Films France 2 Cinema Pandora Film Vega Film (Zurich) and Eurospace (Tokyo) |
| SUPPORTED BY | La Sept ARTE Filmstiftung NRW ARD-DEGETO CNC Procirep Television Suisse Romande L'office federal de la culture |
| WORLD SALES | Intermedia, Paris |
| GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR | Kinowelt/Arthaus |
| LENGTH | 129 min. |
| FORMAT | colour 1:1.66 Dolby SRD partly shot on S-16mm |
| SHOOTING LOCATION | France Germany Switzerland |
| ORIGINAL LANGUAGE | french |
| PRODUCERS | Bruno Pesery (producer) Karl Baumgartner Ruth Waldburger Kenzo Horikoshi (co-producers) Albert Prevost Raimond Goebel (executive producers) |
| WRITERS | Leos Carax(after the novel "Pierre or the ambiguities" by Herman Melville) |
| CASTING | Antoinette Boulat, Outcast (Germany) |
| DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | Eric Gautier |
| PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT | Sylvie Barthet Dschingis Bawakov (upm) |
| EDITING | Nelly Quettier |
| MUSIC | Scott Walker |
| SOUND | Jean-Louis Ughetto (sound recordist) Beatrice Wick Jean-Pierre Laforce |
| ART DIRECTION | Laurent Allaire |
| COSTUMES | Esther Walz |
| MAKE UP HAIR | Bernard Floch |
| SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE | yes |
| DVD VIDEO AVAILABLE | yes |
| LINKS | n/s |
