Now that English Canada has made a real war drama (Passchendaele), Quebec will follow with a war drama of its own. In fact, La cité, Kim Nguyen's latest film, will hit Quebecker theatres on April 9, 2010.
The film takes place in 1885 in Algeria at a time when it was a French colony. Dr. Max Orswell (Jean-Marc Barr) just went through a war that lasted 8 years. Now that the war is over, he's to be taken to a port by a caravan, because he plans to go back to France. However, that caravan doesn't come. Besides, the village Max lives in is struck by a strange plague and is forced to be isolated.
This war drama was produced with a budget of $4.8 million CDN and it's a co-production between Canada, Switzerland and Tunisia. Moreover, it was shot in Tunisia and Italy.
The movie also stars Claude Legault, Pierre Lebeau, Lotfi Abdelli, Sabine Karsenti and Vincent Winterhalter.
