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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Roch Stephanik
Script :
Roch Stephanik
Photography :
Tetsuo Nagata
Editor :
Dan Facundo, Roch Stephanik
Cast :
Dominique Blanc, Roschdy Zem, Patrick Catalifo, Jean-Luc Bideau, George Corraface, Gamil Ratib, C�cile Brune, R�mi Martin, Catherine Sola, Laura Mana, As�l Ra�s, Franck Gourlat, Olivier Claverie
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STAND-BY
They leave the cafeteria at Orly airport and head for their plane. After having lived together for five years, G�rard and H�l�ne are flying to Buenos Aires where they intend to begin a new life. Or so H�l�ne thinks. G�rard has other ideas. Right there at the check-in counter, he informs her that he's leaving her, that he doesn't love her any longer, that he's going to Argentina alone. H�l�ne is stunned. She doesn't understand. She tries to reason with him, but his mind is made up; when the plane leaves, only G�rard is on it. Alone in the airport with just her baggage for company, H�l�ne is lost. A shy, introverted woman, she wanders about trying to get her bearings. But soon she finds old friends and makes new ones, like Marco the waiter at the caf�. She becomes a hooker; Orly becomes her beat. She discovers a new world at the airport, a world of glass and steel. Slowly she makes it her own..."For his debut feature, Roch Stephanik had the excellent idea of casting talented actors and allowing them the freedom they need. They are the ones who give the film its humanity." -- Edouard Waintrop (Lib�ration)
Roch Stephanik
Roch Stephanik directed a short film, Bisbille, in 1988. STAND-BY marks his debut in features.
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