Viva Carmen

FORMAT

Feature Film

STATUTS

In Production

Director

Sébastien Laudenbach

Executive production

Folivari

Andalusia, 1840. After three years of wandering, 13-year-old Salva, the devoted assistant to a blind knife grinder, returns to Seville and meets Carmen, a 20-year-old gypsy woman with a mesmerizing voice. When a prophecy warns him that death is looming over her, he turns to his friend Belén, 15, and their small gang of street kids to try to save her.

From Lillas Pastia’s tavern to winding alleyways, from the sunlit terracotta rooftops to the pigments of the grand dye works, from the labyrinth of an old mine to the misty gypsy camp, from the Plaza de Toros to the tall galleons moored in Seville’s port, will they succeed in preventing Carmen’s tragic fate from coming true?

Scenes

Director

Sébastien Laudenbach

Screenwriters

Santiago Otheguy, Sébastien Laudenbach

Original concept

Pierre-Henri Léon, Sébastien Laudenbach

Graphic design

Cyril Pedrosa

Producers

Damien Brunner, Sarah Delmas

Associated producer

Pierre-Henri Léon

Executive production

Folivari

Associated production

France 3 Cinéma, Région AuRA, La Garde Montante Films

French distribution

Haut et Court Distribution

International sales

Film Constellation

Broadcasters

Canal+, Ciné+, France TV

Partners

CNC, Creative Europe – MEDIA, Procirep, Angoa, Ile-de-France, AuRA, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Charente, LBPI, Cofinova, CinéAxe, Palatine Etoile

© Viva Carmen – Folivari / France 3 Cinéma / Région AuRA / La Garde Montante Films

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