What the Day Owes the Night
Production
Budget
$17
Revenue
$2 041 270
Director
Scenario
Yasmina Khadra
Author
Composer
Producer
Christophe Louis
Actors
Nora Arnezeder
Émilie
Fu'ad Aït Aattou
Younès / Jonas
Anne Parillaud
Madame Cazenave
Vincent Perez
Juan Rucillio
Anne Consigny
Madeleine
Mohamed Fellag
Mohamed
Nicolas Giraud
Fabrice
Olivier Barthélémy
Jean-Cristophe
Short description
Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.
What's left behind the scenes
- The novel that the protagonist reads throughout the film, 'The White Horse' ('Le Cheval blanc'), was written in 1943 by Elsa Triolet, a French writer born in Moscow and the younger sister of Mayakovsky's lover, Lilya Brik.
- The film's screenplay is based on a novel by Yasmina Khadra, published in 2008.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
