Safe Conduct (film)
| Safe Conduct (Fr: Laissez-passer) |
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| Directed by | Bertrand Tavernier |
| Produced by | Frédéric Bourboulon Alain Sarde |
| Written by | Bertrand Tavernier Jean Cosmos |
| Starring |
Jacques Gamblin Denis Podalydès Charlotte Kady Christian Berkel Marie Gillain Olivier Gourmet |
| Music by | Antoine Duhamel |
| Cinematography | Alain Choquart |
| Edited by | Sophie Brunet |
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| Distributed by | Bac Films 01 Distribuzione |
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9 January 2002 |
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Running time
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170 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $16 million |
| Box office | $2.8 million |
Safe Conduct (French: Laissez-passer) is a 2002 French historical drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and written by Tavernier and Jean Cosmos.
The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have to write anything collaborationist. Devaivre is in dangerous political activity. Devaivre also works for the German production company Continental Films, where he is respected. On the other hand, Aurenche's scriptwriting doesn't help how he lives and he is a womanizer which causes him to procrastinate.
The film is based on French director Jean-Devaivre's memoirs. Bertrand Tavernier felt compelled to tell the story because of his interest in reviving films from 1942 to 1944 and because he has friendships with key figures from those films. Principle filming began November 6, 2000.
The real life Devaivre sued director Tavernier because he wanted his name bigger than Aurenche's in the credits. Tavernier's enemies, including Cahiers du Cinéma and Le Monde, attacked him because they thought that he was attacking the French New Wave when he portrayed the characters of Aurenche and Bost in a positive light. Tavernier thought that it was crazy that they were attacking him and pointed out that he had worked with Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Agnès Varda, and Jacques Demy and did not oppose any of their works. French critics think that the film supports passitivity and collaboration as well as appealing to the conservative elements of French film-making.
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