Dheepan

Dheepan

★ 6.8IMDb Score
Released:2015-08-26
Duration:115 min
Country:France
Director:Jacques Audiard
Actors:Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, Marc Zinga
Production:France 2 Cinéma, Why Not Productions, Page 114

Overview:

Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.

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