Babylon A.D.
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| Directed by | Mathieu Kassovitz |
| Produced by | Ilan Goldman |
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Babylon Babies 1999 novel by Maurice G. Dantec |
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| Music by | Atli Örvarsson |
| Cinematography | Thierry Arbogast |
| Edited by | Benjamin Weill |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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| Country | France |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $70 million |
| Box office | $72.1 million |
Babylon A.D. is a 2008 English-language Frenchscience fiction action film based on the novel Babylon Babies by Maurice Georges Dantec. The film was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and stars Vin Diesel, Mélanie Thierry, Michelle Yeoh, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong, Jérôme Le Banner, Charlotte Rampling, and Gérard Depardieu. It was released on 29 August 2008 in the United States.
In the near future, a mercenary named Toorop (Vin Diesel) accepts a contract from a Russian mobster, Gorsky (Gérard Depardieu), who instructs him to bring a young woman known only as Aurora (Mélanie Thierry) to New York City. In order to reach this goal, Gorsky gives Toorop a variety of weapons as well as a UN passport that has to be injected under the skin of the neck. Toorop, along with the girl and her guardian nun Sister Rebeka (Michelle Yeoh), travels from the Noelite Convent in Mongolia to reach New York via Russia.
Unlike the U.S. (where it is technologically advanced and powerful) the towns and cities of Russia have been turned into dangerous, overpopulated slums by war and terrorist activity, forcing Toorop, Aurora, and Rebeka to face dangers of the human element, while fleeing from an unknown group of mercenaries claiming to have been sent by Aurora's supposedly dead father. The stress of humanity's situation causes Aurora to act out in strange ways that neither Toorop nor Rebeka can explain. On one such occasion, Aurora seems for no reason to panic and run from a crowded train station, just before it explodes.
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