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Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?
Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Vincent Lindon | - | Julien Auclert | |
Diane Kruger | - | Lisa Auclert | |
Lancelot Roch | - | Oscar | |
Olivier Marchal | - | Henri Pasquet | |
Hammou Graïa | - | Commandant Susini (as Graia Hammou) | |
Liliane Rovère | - | Mère Julien | |
Olivier Perrier | - | Père Julien | |
Moussa Maaskri | - | Martial | |
Rémi Martin | - | Capitaine Jousseaume | |
Thierry Godard | - | Pascal | |
Slimane Hadjar | - | David | |
Dorothée Tavernier | - | Nathalie | |
Alaa Safi | - | Moussa (as Alaa Oumouzoune) | |
Joseph Beddelem | - | Hassan | |
Ivan Franek | - | Dragan |
The prison seen in the film is actually a combination of three filming locations: the exteriors are that of the Meaux prison, some 40 kilometers east of Paris, the entrance corridors are part of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris and the other interiors (the cell, the visiting room) are studio sets.
All the prison scenes and the studio interiors were shot in chronological order as Fred Cavayé felt it would be important for the actors and the evolution of their characters.
Fred Cavayé and Guillaume Lemans didn't do an enormous amount of research as they didn't want the audience to forget that the hero in an ordinary person, an amateur, who doesn't really know how to proceed.
Klaus Badelt came onto the project at a late stage, and watched the film with Fred Cavayé to see where music was needed. Though Badelt felt the film already worked without music, Cavayé found that his work, which was recorded at London's Abbey Road studios, elevated the intensity and the emotion of the scenes to new heights.
150 children auditioned for the role of Oscar. Fred Cavayé originally wanted a five-year old but found that it would be unmanageable with the two hours of daily legally allocated work time, and thus set his eyes on a younger-looking, shy six-year old. Newcomer Lancelot Roch was eventually chosen for his resemblance with Diane Kruger.
Diane Kruger insisted on meeting with Fred Cavayé before accepting the part, as she felt that the character of Lisa wasn't fleshed out enough. As such, Kruger and Cavayé spent several months developing the character which had a significantly smaller role in the original draft.
Filming lasted eleven weeks.
Fred Cavayé chose Diane Kruger for her radiant beauty, as it would make her character's ordeal all the more powerful.
The idea for the film came from Guillaume Lemans. Once Fred Cavayé got involved, the two men started out by working on the film separately before sharing their ideas. Cavayé then wrote the first draft of the screenplay himself, and so on.
The opening passages of this remake are almost identical in the US remake, Kolm järgmist päeva (2010).
The scenes set in South America were actually shot in Belgium and Spain.
Whereas in this film, it's made abundantly clear that the wife is innocent, the US remake Kolm järgmist päeva (2010) tries to make this much more of a grey area.
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