Sage femme
The Midwife- Director
- Martin Provost
- Country
- France, Belgium
- Year
- 2017
- Genre
- Drama, Fiction
- Scriptwriters
- Martin Provost
- Cast
- Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot, Olivier Gourmet
- Production
- Curiosa Films; in coproduction with France 3 Cinéma, Versus Production.
Storyline
Claire is a wonderfully gifted midwife, with a natural talent to deliver babies with the most gentle touch. But over the years, her delicate ways, her sense of pride and responsibility are clashing with the more efficiency-driven methods of modern hospitals. Closer to the end of her career than to its beginning, she’s starting to question her place and her skills. One day she receives a strange phone call, a voice from the past. Béatrice, the extravagant and frivolous mistress of her deceased father, has important and pressing news and wants to see her again, 30 years after having disappeared without a trace. Opposed in every way, the over-conscientious Claire – bordering inhibition – and the free-spirit, life-loving Béatrice, will learn to accept one another and by revealing old secrets will start to make up for the lost years.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
Berlin International Film Festival 2017
World premiere – Out of competition
Releases
Spain (3 of August 2018)
France (22 of March 2017)
Call for proposals Distribution Automatic
Media support 85.200,00 €
Countries: Austria, Spain, Finland, Hungary
Call for proposals Distribution Selective
Year 2017
Call number 19/2016
Companies who received the MEDIA support:
Thimfilm Gmbh (AT 22.300€)
Lumière Publishing NV (BE 22.300€)
Bulgaria Film Vision Ltd (BG 3.000€)
Film Distribution Artcam Sro (CZ 8.800€)
Camino Filmverleih Gmbh (DE 35.700€)
Universum Film Gmbh (DE 125.000€)
41Shadow Aps (DK 15.500€)
A-One Films Estonia Ou (EE 3.000€)
Seven Group Psyhagogiki Ae (EL 8.800€)
A Contracorriente Films (ES 99.600€)
Oy Cinema Mondo LTD (FI 15.500€)
ADS Service Kereskedelmi Es Szolgaltato Kft (HU 15.500€)
Heimili Kvikmyndanna Ses.-Bíó Paradís (IS 3.000€)
Vis A-One Films Baltic (LT 3.000€)
Crnogorski Filmski Festival (ME 3.000€)
COMPANY FOR FILM PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION PREMIUM FILM DOOEL SKOPJE (MK 3.000€)
Lumiere Publishing Bv (NL 33.700€)
As Fidalgo (NO 21.300€)
Midas Filmes Lda (PT 8.800€)
Cine Europa Srl (RO 3.000€)
Five Stars Film Distribution Doo Zafilmsku I Video Produkciju Beograd-Novi Beograd (RS 3.000€)
Folkets Bio Ab (SE 21.300€)
Demiurg, Cvetka Flakus s.p. (SI 3.000€)
Asociacia Slovenskych Filmovych Klubov (SK 5.300€)
Distribution:
Memento Films (France)
Ascot Elite Home Entertainment GmbH (Germany)
Lumière (Belgium)
