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Cyanide (Cyanure)

German title: Cyanure (Zyankali)
Spain title: Cianuro
Russian title: Цианид
Original title: Cyanure

Youth drama – Canada, Switzerland
Production year: 2011
Movie length: 103 minutes

Director: Séverine Cornamusaz
Writer: Séverine Cornamusaz, Marcel Beaulieu
Cinematograph: Carlo Varini
Music: Luc Sicard

Movie description:

A young hopeful teenager is waiting for his unknown and fantasized father to come out of prison. His family dream life is seriously undermined by an exhausted mother and a man who, after so many years in jail, has become unable to be a responsible father.

13-year-old Achille has a great idol – his father Joe, who’s been in prison since his son’s birth. With great imagination, Achille draws for himself the life that Papa Joe and Mama Pénélope must have had. His expectations are great when Joe is released, but his macho dad doesn’t want to have anything to do with him, just as Pénélope wants nothing to do with Joe. She gives him an ultimatum: either be a good father to Achille or she’ll divorce him.

Thirteen-year-old Achille eagerly awaits his father’s release from prison, fantasizing about how wonderful it will be for his mother, his father and him to be a real family. But his dreams may be dashed by the harsh reality of his situation – a mother tired of waiting and a father who may not be able to adapt to life outside of prison.

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