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Comedy
FORUM FILMS and VERSUS PRODUCTION present
SIMON KONIANSKI
a film by MICHA WALD
JONATHAN ZACCAÏ - POPECK
ABRAHAM LEBER - IRENE HERZ - NASSIM BEN ABDELMOUMEN - MARTA DOMINGO - IVAN FOX
VERSUS PRODUCTION presents a coproduction Belgium / France / Canada with HAUT ET COURT, FORUM FILMS, RTBF (belgium television). «Simon Konianski» written and directed by MICHA WALD - director of photography JEAN-PAUL DE ZAEYTIJD - editor SUSANA ROSSBERG - production designer ANNA FALGUERES - costume designer NADIA CHMILEWSKY - make-up artist MICHELLE VAN BRUSSEl - sound CLAUDE LAHAYE, CLAUDE BEAUGRAND, STEPHANE BERGERON - produced by JACQUES-HENRI & OLIVIER BRONCKART - coproducers CAROLE SCOTTA, SIMON ARNAL, RICHARD LALONDE, ARLETTE ZYLBERBERG.
With the help of Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique et des Télédistributeurs wallons. With the participation of Région Wallonne. With the support of the Belgium federal government Tax Shelter. With the participation of Eurimages, TPS STAR, CINÉCINÉMA. With the financial participation of SODEC (Société de développement des entreprises culturelles - Québec).
Produced with the participation of Téléfilm Canada, QUÉBEC - Crédit d'impôt cinéma et télévision - Gestion SODEC, The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit. With the support of Programme MEDIA de la Communauté Européenne.
CREDITS (NON CONTRACTUALS)
Awards and festivals
7e Festival Paris Cinéma (France)
24e Festival du Film Francophone de Namur (Belgique)
4th International Rome Film Festival (Italie)
39th Kyiv International Film Festival "Molodist" (Ukraine)
26e Festival International du Film Francophone de Tübingen-Stuttgart (Allemagne)
36e Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bruxelles (Belgique)
Vienna Jewish Film Festival 2009 (Autriche)
Festival du Film Francophone 2009 (Brno, Rép. tchèque)
Synopsis
Simon (Jonathan Zaccaï) has gone back to stay with his father (Popeck) who, with the help of a kabbalist rabbi, tries by all means to get rid of this lazy, cumbersome jerk and marry him ASAP to a "nice little Jewish girl." At 35, Simon still doesn't hold a real job and earns a living serving as Guinea pig for the pharmaceutical industry. While separated from Corazon, a lovely Spanish dancer and the mother of his 6 year old son - Simon sees himself as a cartoon artists and Corazon's brother Jorge, a rather sleazy inveterate pot smoker acts as his agent. When his father dies, Simon respects his last wishes to be put to rest in his native village lost deep down at the other end of Ukraine. Simon then finds himself embarked on a breathtaking road-movie with his old and paranoid ant and uncle. The trip will be everything but a cruise on the Nile!
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Photos
Photo credit : Laurent Thurin Nal
A film by
Micha Wald
Written by
Micha Wald
Principal cast
| Simon | Jonathan Zaccaï |
| Ernest | Popeck (Judka Herpstu) |
| Adrien | Nassim Ben Abdelmoumen |
| Maurice | Abraham Leber |
| Tante Mala | Irène Herz |