Valparaiso
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Valparaiso

Jean-Christophe Delpias
Year of release in Luxembourg 2012
Year of release in Luxembourg 2012
Director Jean-Christophe Delpias
Luxembourg producer SAMSA FILM
In co-production with
  • Agat Films & Cie et Ex Nihilo (FR)
  • Artémis Productions (BE)
  • Arte (FR)
Script Jean-Christophe Delpias, Vincent Maillard
Original version
  • French
Duration 90 minutes
International sales

Samsa Film

Cast and crew
Cast

    Hervé Sogne
    Gilles Soeder
    Sophie Langevin
    Jeanine Horsburgh

Crew

    Music : Lingo (André Dziezuk et Marc Mergen)
    Sound : Philippe Kohn
    Set Design : Véronique Sacrez
    Costumes : Isabelle Dickes
    Make-up : Fabienne Adam
    Location manager : Patrick Blocman
    Production manager : Brigitte Kerger-Santos

Synopsis

21:07 GMT, somewhere on the English Channel: the super-tanker Magnificent runs aground on the Casquets reef, a gaping hole torn through its double hull. The ship sinks, causing a new oil spill. In Brussels, Emma Caglione, a young representative of the Green Party in the European Parliament, joins the EP inquiry commission. She discovers that the crude oil in the tanker had just been secretly bought by Oil&Co, a multinational company whose third in command, Balthazar Parédès, happens to be her father…