I wish I'd been a dancer
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J’aurais voulu être un danseur

Alain Berliner
Year of release in Luxembourg 2007
Year of release in Luxembourg 2007
Director Alain Berliner
Luxembourg producer SAMSA FILM
In co-production with
  • Artemis Productions (BE)
  • Liaison Cinématographique (FR)
  • Ipso Facto Films (UK)
  • Nord-Ouest Productions (FR)
  • W.F.E. (BE)
  • Media Services (BE)
Script Alain Berline, Sonia Bekhor
Original version
  • French
Duration 105 minutes
International sales

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Cast and crew
Cast

    Vincent Elbaz
    Cécile de France
    Jean-Pierre Cassel
    Jeanne Balibar
    Circé Lethem

Crew

    DOP : Tony Pierce-Robert
    Sound : Pierre Mertens
    Set decoration : Pierre-François Limbosch
    Costume design : Catherine Marchand
    Make up: Garance Van Rossum
    Editor : Marie-Hélène Dozo
    Choreographie : Mette Berggreen
    Music : Terry Davies, Marc Collin, Jeannot Sanavia, Frédéric Vercheval, Christophe Vervoort, Pierre Roger

Synopsis

2030. In a lecture hall, Antoine, a young university professor, is teaching a course on the unconscious passing down of family secrets. In order to explain how behaviours repeat themselves from generation to generation, he tells his students the story of Maurice, Guy and François… three generations of men who didn’t know their fathers and who abandoned their families to fully live out their absolute passion for musicals. They all unknowingly reproduce the same story until the day François decides to break the law of silence and stop the vicious circle.

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