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JOHNNY MAD DOG
Un Certain Regard
- Directed by :
- Jean-Stéphane SAUVAIRE
- Country:
- FRANCE, BELGIUM, LIBERIA
- Year:
- 2008
- Duration:
- 97.00 minutes
- Prize of Hope, 2008
Synopsis
Today, in contemporary Africa.Johnny, 15, a kid-soldier armed to the hilt, is inhabited by the mad dog he dreams of becoming.
With his small commando – No Good Advice, Small Devil, Young Major – he robs, pillages, and slays everything in his path.
Laokolé, 16, pushing her disabled facther around in a rickety wheelbarrow, attempting to invent the glorious future which her brilliant studies seem to have in store for her, strives to flee her city occupied by teenage-soldier militias, with her little brother Fofo, 8.
As Johnny advances, Laokolé flees . . .
Under the windows of embassies, NGOs, the High Commissionership for Refugees, teenagers fed by Hollywood imagery and disinformation play at war. The militias fight enemies dubbed “Patriots”; the “Dogo-Mayis” want to exterminate the “Mayi-Dogos”; the adolescent warlords call themselves “Giap” or “Rambo” and kill each other over a TV set, a basket of fruit, or a misplaced word.
Childhoods cut short, an Africa ravaged by absurd wars, a people who are trying, in spite of it all, to survive and to save their humanity.
Jean-Stéphane SAUVAIRE
Credits
- Jean-Stéphane SAUVAIRE - Director
- Jacques FIESCHI - Screenplay
- Jean-Stéphane SAUVAIRE - Screenplay
- Marc KONINCKX - Cinematography
- Alexandre VIVET - Set Designer
- Jackson Tennessee FOURGEAUD - Music
- Stéphane ELMADJIAN - Film Editor
- Yves COMELIAU - Sound
- LES KOUZ - Sound
Actors
- Daisy Victoria VANDY - LAOKOLE
- Christopher MINIE - JOHNNY MAD DOG
Contacts and useful links
Production
MNP ENTREPRISE - 18/20, rue du faubourg du Temple
75011 Paris - T : 01 55 28 30 99 - olivia@mnp-entreprise.com - www.mnp-entreprise.com
EXPLICIT FILMS (FRANCE)
SCOPE PICTURES (BELGIQUE)
Distribution
TFM - Valeria Ciezar - Immeuble Central Park
9, rue Maurice Mallet
92130 Issy les Moulineaux - T : 01 41 41 24 39 - F : 01 41 41 31 44 - vciezar@tf1.fr - www.tfmdistribution.fr
French press
CÉDRIC LANDEMAINE - Cédric Landemaine - T : 01 44 05 97 60 - cedriclandemaine@hotmail.com
International press
CÉDRIC LANDEMAINE - T : +33 (0)1 44 05 97 60 - cedriclandemaine@hotmail.com
Foreign sales
TF1 INTERNATIONAL - Nicolas Eschbach - Immeuble Central Park
9, rue Maurice Mallet
92130 Issy les Moulineaux - T : 01 41 41 17 58 - F : 01 41 41 17 69 - neschbach@tf1.fr - www.tf1international.com