The Age of the Stateless

May 22, 2018

★ 6.6

Overview

Sira, a former refugee, works as a translator for OFPRA (the French Office for the Protection of Stateless Persons and Migrants). She unscrupulously fleeces her clients, selling them fictions she creates to convince the authorities.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

TV5 Monde

Delante Productions

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Cast

Sira Diabate

Claudia Tagbo

Jean-Paul Millier

Jean-Pierre Lorit

Louise Elaoudi

Alice Belaïdi

Rada

Biyouna

Abdul Yassin

Amer Alwan

Assa

Hadja Traore

Juge CNDA

Roland Marchisio

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.

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