Dheepan
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Dheepan is a 2015 French crime drama film directed by Jacques Audiard and co-written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, and Noé Debré. The film was partly inspired by Montesquieu's Persian Letters,[5] as well as the 1971 film Straw Dogs, with guidance from Antonythasan Jesuthasan, who stars as the title character.
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Directed by | Jacques Audiard |
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Story by | Jacques Audiard Antonythasan Jesuthasan (uncredited) |
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Starring | Antonythasan Jesuthasan |
Cinematography | Eponine Momenceau |
Edited by | Juliette Welfling |
Music by | Nicolas Jaar |
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Distributed by | UGC Distribution |
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Running time | 115 minutes[1] |
Country | France |
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Budget | €8 million[3] |
Box office | $4.9 million[4] |
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The film tells the story of three Tamil refugees who flee the civil war-ravaged Sri Lanka and come to France, in the hope of reconstructing their lives.[2][6] The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It was later shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[7]