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Beau Travail(Movie, 1999)

Original title: "Beau travail" (French/FR)
NR
| 1h 33min | Genre: Drama
Beau TravailRating: 3.5/5 (with 9898 votes)
Beau Travail (pronounced [bo tʁa.vaj], French for "good work") is a 1999 French film directed by Claire Denis that is loosely based on Herman Melville's 1888 novella Billy Budd. The story is set in Djibouti, where the protagonists are soldiers in the French Foreign Legion. Parts of the soundtrack of the movie are from Benjamin Britten's 1951 opera based on the novella. ()
Movie poster of Beau Travail

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Awards & Nominations for Beau Travail

César Award for Best Cinematography National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography Chlotrudis Award for Best Cinematography European Film Award for Best Cinematographer

About Beau Travail

Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.

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Additional Information

Production country: France
Shot in: Djibouti
Based on: "Billy Budd, Sailor" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: French (FR), Italian (IT), Russian (RU)
Translated into 18 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 01/21/2000 (World premiere: 09/16/1999)
Cast: Bernardo Montet, Dan Herzberg, Denis Lavant, Grégoire Colin, Michel Subor, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Richard Courcet, Marta Tafesse Kassa, Adiatou Massudi, Mickael Ravovski
Director: Claire Denis
Producer: Patrick Grandperret, Jérôme Minet
Executive Producer: Jérôme Minet
Film Editor: Nelly Quettier
Director of Photography: Agnès Godard
Composer: Eran Zur
Costume designer: Judy Shrewsbury
Production Designer: Arnaud de Moleron
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Bom Trabalho"
"Good Work"
"軍中禁戀"
"עבודה טובה"
"아름다운 직업"

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