In production
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Directed by
Élie Grappe
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Written by
Élie Grappe
Victor Jestin -
Production
Les Films Pelléas
PointProd
Belle-Île
Élie Grappe
cowritten with Victor Jestin
After his first film noticed at the Cannes Critics’ Week in 2021, “Olga”, writer-director Élie Grappe came to Le Groupe Ouest as part of its Annual Selection, accompanied by novelist and screenwriter Victor Jestin, to develop his second feature film, “Belle-Île”.
Synopsis
An afternoon in August 1934, fifty-six boys escaped from the penal colony for minors of Belle-Île-en-Mer. They disperse on the island. The colony offers twenty francs to anyone who brings a fugitive. Locals, fishermen, tourists, everyone joins the hunt…
“Belle-Île” is a fiction feature film, inspired by the real fact.
