Film

Dheepan

2015 · 1h 55m · Crime · Drama

When the war continues to rage in your heart and mind

IMDb

7.2

Rotten Tomatoes

88%

Metacritic

76

Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.

Antonythasan Jesuthasan

Dheepan

Kalieaswari Srinivasan

Yalini

Claudine Vinasithamby

Illayaal

Vincent Rottiers

Brahim

Marc Zinga

Youssouf

Faouzi Bensaïdi

Monsieur Habib

Bass Dhem

Azziz

Franck Falise

Hall C Guard

Joséphine de Meaux

School Principal

Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux

The Lawyer

Nathan Anthonypillai

The Interpreter

Vasanth Selvam

Colonel Cheran

Karthik Krishnan

The Forger in Sri Lanka

Tassadit Mandi

The Lady on the Stairs

Marie Trichet

The Young Woman with M. Habib

Sandor Funtek

Guard #1

• Jacques AudiardDirector · Screenplay · Producer
• Thomas BidegainScreenplay
• Noé DebréScreenplay
• Pascal CaucheteuxProducer
• Rebecca O'BrienExecutive Producer
• Martine CassinelliExecutive Producer
• Éponine MomenceauDirector of Photography
• Nicolas JaarOriginal Music Composer
• Juliette WelflingEditor
• Mohamed BelhamarCasting

Official US TrailerOfficial UK TrailerOfficial TrailerDHEEPAN - Official Short Trailer - Recipient Of The Palme D'Or

Release date

August 26, 2015

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

R

Revenue

$7,704,357

Genres

Crime, Drama

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