Humanite
Pharaon De Winter is a police lieutenant who lives with his mother in Bailleul, a working-class town in Northern France. With astonishing and raw sensitivity, Pharaon agonizes over the evil he must confront every day during the course of his work.
His latest case is the brutal rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl, a crime so barbarous that Pharaon reels from the madness of it, struggling to grasp its meaning. Pharaon is deeply attracted to his neighbor and factory worker Domino, who in turn is carnally drawn to her boyfriend, Joseph.
Accompanying them on their sojourns to the country, Pharaon struggles with the pain he feels every time the two physically communicate their affection for one another. So too must he struggle with his emotions and sense of inadequacy as he pieces together the evidence and eyewitness testimony to track the killer of an innocent girl. As the investigation proceeds to its climax, Pharaon''s profound humanity is tested to the limits.
Directed by
Bruno Dumont
Cast
Emmanuel Schotte - Pharaon de Winter
Severine Caneele - Domino
Philippe Tullier - Joseph
Ghislain Ghesquiere - Police Chief
Ginette Allegre - Eliane--Pharaon's Mother
Daniel Leroux - Nurse
Arnaud Brejon de la Lavergnee - Conservationist
Daniel Petillon - Jean--The Cop
Robert Bunzl - English Cop
Dominique Pruvost - Angry Worker
Jean Luc Dumont - CRS
Diane Gray - British Traveller
Paul Gray - British Traveller
Sophie Vercamer - Worker
Murielle Houche - Worker
Production Co.
Three B Productions
Cie/Arte France Cinema
CRRAV
Ministere de la Culture
Canal Plus (Canal+)
Produced by
Jean Brehat
Rachid Bouchareb
Studio
Winstar Cinema
Writer
Bruno Dumont
Music
Richard Cuvillier
