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La fourmi et le volcan

La fourmi et le volcan

1992 · 52 min · ★ 9.0 · Drama

Une famille de petits commerçants chinois veut désespérément quitter Hong Kong avant son rattachement à la Chine en 1997. Ils tentent, mais en vain, d'émigrer au Canada. Un volcanologue d’origine chinoise, habitant l'Islande depuis quelques années, les invite à le rejoindre sur son île. Une correspondance et une relation toute particulière s’établissent entre lui et l’aînée de la famille. A family of chinese shopkeepers is desperately seeking to leave Hong Kong after the retrocession to China. After failing to emigrate to Canada, they are invited to go live in Iceland by a chinese-born volcanologist who moved there a few years ago. A correspondance and relationship builds between the two entities

Directed by Céline Baril · Written by Céline Baril

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