Project Detail

Shimkent Hotel

Name: Shimkent Hotel
Director: Charles de Meaux
Released: 2004
Duration: 92 mins

Synopsis

A French neurologist, arrives at the run-down Shimkent Hotel, Kazakhstan, where he encounters a solitary young man, suffering from amnesia and obviously deep in shock after some catastrophe.

As they begin treatment, the patient slowly recounts his story - a tale involving industrial intrigue, cultural incomprehension, a get-rich-quick scheme which goes horribly wrong, and a desperate flight for survival across the Pakastini border.

Shot on analogue video, with superb desolate landscapes and settings. Utterly gripping and very, very strange indeed.

Details

Year: 2004
Type of project: Features
Running time: 92 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Charles de Meaux
Producer: Gil Donaldson, Zavier Douroux
Editor: Charles de Meaux
Screenwriter: Charles de Meaux
Director of Photography: Charles de Meaux
Sound: Charles de Meaux
Composer: Charles de Maeux, Vladimir Kardev, Pierre Miksiloff
Principal cast: Yann Collette, Caroline Ducey, Romain Duris, Thibault de Montalembert, Melvil Poupaud

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Donaldson Polakoff

Productions Ltd
8 Great James Street
London
WC1N 3DA
UK

T +33 1 40 26 10 87

jgdonaldson@jgdonaldson.com

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