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Overlook Film Festival
2014
Detour on the Road Film Festival
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Yashwant International Film Festival
2014
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Pune International Film Festival
2014
Global Cinema section
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St. Petersburg International Festival of Debut and Students Films Beginning
2013
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T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival - 2013
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Wroclaw - Poland
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Moscow International Film Festival
2013
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International Film Festival Rotterdam - 2013
"Bright Future" Category

Lightning (Foudre)
A legend in four seasons

A film by Manuela Morgaine
Genre : Documentary on legendary form
Runtime : 3h50
Production year : 2013
Synopsis

This panorama is a filmic zigzag that forks out like a bolt of lightning. Its subject straddles several countries and centuries simultaneously. Its form is somewhere between documentary and legend.
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Autumn follows a lightning hunter, associated with Baal, Syrian God of Lightning. A visionary, Baal screens 25 years of video archives of lightning and gives us the scientific key to unlocking this fabulous and devastating phenomenon. Five of the lightning-struck reenact their ordeals at the very locations where they were struck, places to which most had never before returned. The voice of Baal is interpreted by singer and guitarist Rudolphe Burger.
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Winter strives to analyze melancholy, the final stage of depression, and the ways in which it can be overcome. A psychiatrist personifies Saturn, the god and dark planet. He travels to Africa and Syria to find both his own roots and the source of certain ancestral practices: a ritual performed by women deep in Guinea Bissau, spinning dervishes, and a torpedo fish which, in the ancient city of Aleppo, held the secret to wellness. At the same time, five melancholic patients, seen in slow-motion in the places that represent their existential angst, describe their long and unique journeys back to themselves and the light.
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Spring resuscitates Symeon the Stylite, a god maniac who lived atop a column for 40 years. Symeon was struck dead by a bolt of lightning in the desert of Cham near Palmyra, Syria. But he also digs for lost artifacts. He tells the true story of Aleppo soap and its cauldron filled with myths. He tells how, every spring, lightning engenders an aphrodisiac truffle called Kama which goes by the name of “Allah’s vegetable” in The Arabian Nights.
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Summer, based on the text of Marivaux’s DISPUTE, stages the earth-shattering meeting between two intense creatures, Azor and Eglé, who are stranded on the island of Sutra. On this island paradise, they eat Kama, the forbidden fruit and, though madly in love, are expelled. They are studied like atomic lab mice from the time they first see light in the 18th century to today when they are plunged into darkness.

The branches Baal, Saturn, Symeon, the Melancholics and the Lightning-struck are finally united and join the battle-weary lovers at the nocturnal lightning ball.

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Cast
Baal, Lightning Hunter : Rodolphe Burger
Saturne The Psychiatrist : William de Carvalho
Syméon The Stylite : Michael Jasmin
Eglé : Margot Crespon
Azor : Maxime Nourrissat
Nevil The Merchant Marine : Frank Smith


The Lightning struck
Samy Haffaf
Albert Rochette
Richard Arbez
Roland Bardel dit Roulette
Florence Lancial

The Melancholics
The Insane Man : Kamel Agee
Death and the Maiden : Margot Crespon
The Madonna of the Sharks : Laurence Mailler
The Floating Woman : Nathalie Jailler
The Nostalgic Man
The Grand Horned Owl : Brice Thévenot

With a special appearance by Jean-Pierre Luminet (astrophysicist)

Production
Mathieu Bompoint - Mezzanine Films
Manuela Morgaine - Envers Compagnie

Credits
Screenwriter : Manuela Morgaine
Director : Manuela Morgaine
Music composers : Philippe Langlois , Emmanuel Hosseyn During
Additional music : Ludwig von Beethoven, Giuseppe Verdi, Fréderic Chopin, Joseph Haydn, Antonio Vivaldi
Directors of photography : Manuela Morgaine, Pauline Lormant, Giovanni Laniado, Hervé Labourdette
Footage of The Lightning Hunt : Alex Hermant
Assistant director : Marianne Nicole
Sound recordists : Giovanni Laniado, Fabien Paviot
Costums : Agnès Noden
Makeup : Emilie Dupérier
Editors : Gordana Othnin-Girard, Pauline Lormant
Sound editor : Colette Constantini
Sound mixer : Gilles Benardeau
Color grading : Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux, Christophe Bousquet
Special effects : Matthieu Serrière
Film restauration and Re-mastering : Blaise Othnin-Girard
Line producer : Mathieu Bompoint - Mezzanine Films
Executive producer : Manuela Morgaine - Envers Compagnie
Production managers : Edyta Janczak-Hiriart, Marianne Nicole
Production coordinators : Luc Barrau, Florent Lapeyre, Corinne Borrot
Production administrators : Pascale Meneur, Séverine Barré, Juliette Bompoint, Julian Monfort

Technical details
Genre : Documentary
Sub-genre : Legend
Production language : French
Nationality : French (100%)
Production year : 2013
Runtime : 3h50
Color type : Color
Production formats : HDV / SD / HD
Screening formats : DCP / DVD
Aspect ratio : 4/3 & 16/9
Sound format : 5.1
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