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Original name: Le Quatrième Mur
English name: The Fourth Wall
Year: 2024
Run time: 116 minutes
Language: French, Arabic
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Director: David Oelhoffen
Producer: Christine Rouxel, Maya Hariri, Bruno Levy
Cast: Laurent Lafitte, Manal Issa, Simon Abkarian
Screenplay: David Oelhoffen
Cinematographer: Guillaume Deffontaines
Editor: Sandie Bompar
Sound Designer: Pierre Mertens, Quentin Collette, Angelo Dos Santos, Rana Eid, Loïc Collignon
Music Composer: Tom Gatti, Jérôme Reuter
Costume Designer: Ola Achkar, Magdalena Labuz
Production Designer: Hussein Baydoun, Christina Schaffer
Production Company: Eliph Productions, Rhamsa Productions, Move Movie, Amour Fou Luxembourg, Panache Productions, L'Émissaire de Baal
World Sales: Le Pacte
David Oelhoffen was born in 1968. After working in production, he wrote and directed his first short film The Wall in 1996. He went on to write and direct a medium length feature In My Absence and three other shorts of which Under the Overalls, presented at the 2004 Venice Film Festival and nominated at the 2006 César. In 2006 he directed his first feature length In Your Wake.
Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace from the raging civil war. The characters will be played by actors from different political and religious camps. Lost in a city and a conflict he knows nothing about, Georges is guided by Marwan. As fighting resumes, everything is soon called into question, and Georges, who falls in love with Imane, has to face up to the reality of war.
