Title: The White Knights
Original Title: Les chevaliers blancs
Year: 2015
Info
- Country: Belgium France
- Language: French English
- Length: 112 Minutes (1 hour 52 min)
- Budget: €8,999,123
- Genre: Drama Thriller
- Studios: Versus Production Les Films du Worso France 3 Cinéma
- Distributor: Golem Distribución
Release Dates
- UK: November 04 2016
Plot
Jacques Arnault is the director of the NGO Secours Sud and plans to release 300 orphans of victims of civil war from Chad with his team and deliver them to French families who want to adopt. To do this, they invite the journalist François Dubois to accompany them and take care of the media coverage of the operation. The brutal reality of a country at war is beginning to affect the convictions of members of the NGO, which must decide where the limits of humanitarian intervention are. The latest film by Joachim Lafosse ('Private Property') passed successfully by the 63rd edition of the Festival of San Sebastian and features performances of Vincent Lindon ('The Measure of a Man'), Louise Bourgoin ('The Love Punch') , Valérie Donzelli ('Declaration of War') and Reda Kateb ('Zero Dark Thirty').
Cast
Director:
Jacques Arnault
Laura Turine
Françoise Dubois
Xavier Libert
Marie Latour
Luc Debroux
Chris Laurent
Videos
August 14 2016
August 14 2016
August 14 2016
Spanish trailer 'The White Knights'
July 31 2016
Photos
Trivia
Composer
The German musician Sascha Ring, known as Apparat, is the composer of the soundtrack for the film. The director was looking electronic music because it "goes directly to the subconscious of the viewer".
Award
Joachim Lafosse received the Silver Shell for Best Director at the 63 Film Festival San Sebastian for this work.
Real Case
The story is based on a real case occurred in 2007, the scandal over illegal adoptions in Chad that hit the French NGO "Zoe's Ark". However, some data has been altered.
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