Eldorado

Jun 4, 2008

1h 25m

★ 6.6

Overview

Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends up giving him a lift home to his parents. Together, they travel through Belgium and meet some extraordinary people and find themselves in ditto situations.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Versus Production

Eldorado Trailers

Cast

Yvan

Bouli Lanners

Elie

Fabrice Adde

Le Collectionneur

Philippe Nahon

Le naturiste

Didier Toupy

La maman d'Elie

Françoise Chichéry

Stefan Liberski

Jean-Jacques Rausin

Renaud Rutten

Michaël Abiteboul

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