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The Son of the Shark is a french film of genre Drama directed by Agnès Merlet released in france in DVD on 19 october 2011 with Sandrine Blancke
The Son of the Shark (1993)
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Add to a movie listSon of the Shark (French: Le Fils du Requin) is a 1993 French film directed by Agnes Merlet, about two brothers, Martin (Ludovic Vandendaele) and Simon (Eric Da Silva), and their adventures as juvenile delinquents in the north of France.
Inspired by a well-known passage of Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror, Martin holds a belief, in which he claims to be "the son of a female shark". He hopes that someday he and his brother, Simon will disappear to the bottom of the ocean, where they will live happily ever after surrounded by dancing fish.
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Dans une petite ville du Nord de la France, deux gamins d'une dizaine d'années, Martin et Simon, rejetés par leur père et livrés à eux-mêmes depuis que leur mère a quitté le foyer familial, tombent dans la délinquance pour survivre. Ils sont utilisés un temps par des bandes de garçons plus grands qu'eux, puis tentent de se mettre à leur compte, mais ils doivent subir la loi des plus forts. Dormant dans des wagons de marchandise, ils sont pris par les gendarmes et placés l'un en foyer, l'autre en famille d'accueil. C'est pour mieux s'en échapper à chaque fois, tant et si bien que l'administration, désarmée, ne sait plus que faire d'eux.Actors
Sandrine Blancke
(Marie)
Olivier Saladin
Maxime Leroux
(Le père)
Yolande Moreau
(L'automobiliste)
Jacques Mathou
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