German Newsletter

Esteemed clients, dear friends of ARRI,

Enclosed, please find the most recent edition of the ARRI Film & TV newsletter, this time to announce the theatrical release of Le Havre by the acclaimed Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki.

The film, a tragicomedy about the ongoing refugee problem, screened earlier this year in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where the filmmaker wooed audience and critics alike with yet another film bearing his distinct artistic signature.

Enjoy the read!

All the best,

Angela Reedwisch and Josef Reidinger

OPENING IN GERMAN THEATERS SEPTEMBER 8, 2011: LE HAVRE

Director: Aki Kaurismäki Screenplay: Aki Kaurismäki DoP: Timo Salminen Editor: Timo Linnasalo Production Company: Sputnik, Pyramide Productions, Pandora Film German Distributor: Pandora Film Verleih   Re-Recording Mixer: Christian Bischoff   ARRI Services: Lab (Trailer), Sound (dubbed, German version on behalf of Mina Kindl Synchronisationen)

In Le Havre, the first film in many years shot outside of his native Finland, Aki Kaurismäki proves to be as feisty as in The Man Without a Past and at the same time as poetic as in The Bohemian Life, which was also shot in France. Kaurismäki wrote, directed and produced Le Havre, which played in competition in Cannes earlier this year. DoP Fimo Salminen created the impressive color composition. The film was produced by Sputnik, Pyramide Productions and Pandora Film. The latter is releasing the film theatrically in Germany.

ARRI Film & TV completed the lab work for the trailer and, on behalf of Mina Kindl Synchronisationen, created the dubbed German version. 

Left: Marcel Marx (André Wilms) and Idrissa (Blondin Miguel); Right: Detective Monet (Jean-Pierre Darroussin)

Left: Marcel Marx (André Wilms) and Idrissa (Blondin Miguel); Right: Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) © Sputnik Oy/Pandora Film; Photographs by Marja-Leena Hukkanen

Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of the honorable, but not too profitable, of a shoe-shiner. He has buried his dreams of a literary breakthrough and lives happily within the triangle of his favorite bar, his work, and his wife Arletty, when fate suddenly throws in his path an underage immigrant refugee from the darkest Africa. As Arletty at the same time gets seriously ill and is bedridden, Marcel once more has to rise against the cold wall of human indifference with his only weapon of innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of the people of his neighborhood, but against him stands the whole blind machinery of the Western constitutionally governed state, this time represented by the dragnet of the police, moment by moment drawing closer around the refugee boy. It's time for Marcel to polish his shoes and reveal his teeth.