In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.
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André Wilms
Marcel Marx
Kati Outinen
Arletty
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Monet
Blondin Miguel
Idrissa
Elina Salo
Claire
Evelyne Didi
Yvette
Quoc Dung Nguyen
Chang
François Monnié
Greengrocer
Roberto Piazza
Little Bob
Pierre Étaix
Dr. Becker
Director
Aki Kaurismäki
Status
Released
Original Language
FR
Budget
$3,850,000
Revenue
$4,230,854
Production
Pyramide Productions, Sputnik, Pandora Film, ARTE France Cinéma, ZDF/Arte
Andres Gomez
April 5, 2014
Simple story, well and gently told in Kaurismäki's characteristic style.
CRCulver
September 1, 2018
In the 2011 production LE HAVRE, the Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki steps away from his usual Helsinki setting for the first in what will be a trilogy of films in Western European port cities. Always rooting for the underdogs, Kaurismäki this time concentrates not just on the disenfranchised urban lower class, but on a socioeconomic strata arguably lower than them: illegal immigrants. Middle-aged s...
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October 16, 2024
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