A Loving Father
Aime ton père
Release: 2002-11-13
·Runtime: 103m
·★ 5.3
Drama
Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish Academy. Léo has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His estranged son Paul tries desperately to contact him, but is denied every time by his sister. When Léo starts traveling to the ceremony in Stockholm by motor bike, Paul decides to follow him and try to speak to him. Clearly Léo doesn't want to be followed, starts speeding and gets involved in a accident, but isn't badly hurt. The police confuse another motorist for Shepherd and announce his death. Paul, driven by his childhood experiences, decides to kidnap his father.
Production Countries
France
United Kingdom
Canada
Switzerland
Production Companies
GMT Productions
DD Productions
France 3 Cinéma
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
Transfilm
Spice Factory
Great British Films
Enterprise Films
Vega Film
Cast
Noémie Kocher
as Marthe
Karina Aktouf
as Paul's fiancée
Manuela Biedermann
as Hospital Nurse
Martin Forsström
as Sailor
Manuel Tadros
as M. Azouz
Urs Peter Halter
as Hospital Doctor
Julien Boisselier
as Arthur
Marc Brunet
as Policeman
Richard Ulfsäter
as Sailor
Guillaume Depardieu
as Paul
Sylvie Testud
as Virginia
Gérard Depardieu
as Léo Shepherd
Hiam Abbass
as Salma
Jacques Frantz
as Antoine Levy
Gregory Terlecki
as Nobel prize dignitary (uncredited)
