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Picturehouse Entertainment |
Release Date:
September 14, 2007
Summary:
Based on the number one international bestselling novel by Alessandro Baricco, Silk is a sweeping romantic drama woven around a material of ethereal fragility: silkworm eggs. When the pébrine epidemic--the spotted silkworm disease that ravaged eggs from European hatcheries in the 1860s--spread overseas, eggs from as far away as Africa and India became infected; thus, the entire European silk trade seemed doomed. To continue his lucrative trade, Baldabiou--a roguish French trader--decides to send young military officer Herve Joncour on a perilous mission to Japan, separating Herve for months on end from Helene, his lovely and devoted schoolteacher wife. Prior to the opening of the Suez Canal, Japan produced the finest silk in the world for thousands of years and was considered a dominion forbidden to foreigners--quite literally the opposite end of the world. It is here that Herve encounters the powerful and feared local baron, Hara Jubei, with whom he will trade for the precious silkworm eggs. And it is here, in a world unlike anything that Herve has experienced before, that he becomes entranced by the baron's concubine, a deeply mysterious girl of intoxicating beauty. Without speaking one another's language, they share a doomed, obsessive love. A film of painterly beauty and ravishing romance, Silk is a historically rapturous epic romance of east meets west. (Picturehouse)
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Details
| Runtime: | 107 min |
| Rating: | Rated R for sexuality and nudity. |
| Production: | Fandango |
| Genres: | Drama, Romance |
| Countries: | Japan, UK, France, Italy, Canada |
| Languages: | English, Latin, Japanese |
| Home Release Date: | Feb 26, 2008 |
| Director | Credit |
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| François Girard | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
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| Alessandro Baricco | Writer |
| François Girard | Writer |
| Michael Golding | Writer |
| Principal Cast | Credit |
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| Keira Knightley | Hélène Joncour |
| Michael Pitt | Hervé Joncour |
| Cast | Credit |
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| Alfred Molina | Baldabiou |
| Carlo Cecchi | Priest |
| Chiara Stampone | Béatrice Berbek |
| Hiroya Morita | Japanese Elder #1 |
| Kenneth Welsh | Mayor Joncour |
| Leslie Csuth | M. Loiseau |
| Marc Fiorini | M. Chabert |
| Martha Burns | Mme. Joncour |
| Michael Golding | Clerk |
| Sei Ashina | The Girl |
| Toni Bertorelli | Verdun |
| Tony Vogel | Café Verdun Man #1 |
| Toru Tezuka | Japanese Guide |
| Producer | Credit |
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| Akira Ishii | Executive Producer |
| Alessandro Baricco | Executive Producer |
| Barbara Willis Sweete | Associate Producer: Rhombus Media |
| Cam Galano | Executive Producer |
| Domenico Procacci | Producer |
| François Girard | Executive Producer |
| Gianluca Leurini | Line Producer: Italy |
| Jacques Méthé | Producer: Quebec |
| Jonathan Debin | Executive Producer |
| Larry Weinstein | Associate Producer: Rhombus Media |
| Masaru Koibuchi | Line Producer: Japan |
| Nadine Luque | Producer |
| Niv Fichman | Producer |
| Patrice Theroux | Executive Producer |
| Rami Rabei | Line Producer: Second Unit, Egypt |
| Sahar Nasser | Associate Producer: Second Unit, Egypt |
| Sheena Macdonald | Associate Producer: Rhombus Media |
| Sonoko Sakai | Producer |
| Tom Yoda | Executive Producer |
| Yasushi Shiina | Executive Producer |
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