Welcome to the Sticks(Movie, 2008)

Name: Welcome to the Sticks
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 2008
Duration: T01:46:00
Rating: 3.3

Original title: "Bienvenue chez les ch'tis" (French/FR)

1h 46min | Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.3/5 (with 1,096 votes)

Welcome to the Sticks (French: Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis, French pronunciation: [bjɛ̃vny ʃe le ʃti]) is a 2008 French comedy film directed and co-written by Dany Boon and starring Kad Merad and Boon himself. The film is the highest-grossing French film of all time at the box office in France. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Welcome to the Sticks

nominated for: European Film Academy Lux Award

About Welcome to the Sticks

Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...

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Trailer for Welcome to the Sticks + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Welcome To The Sticks (2008) Trailer(Trailer, 2:05)

Welcome To The Sticks (2008) Trailer (Trailer) | Welcome to the Sticks - Trailer (Trailer) | Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis - Bande-annonce (Trailer, FR) | Trailer (Trailer, DE) | Bande Annonce (Trailer, FR) | Quels chiens ? (Clip, FR) | Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis - Bêtisier - Jean-Christophe Delhaye (Bloopers, FR)

Additional Information

Official websites:

www.bienvenuechezleschtis-lefilm.com

Production country: France

Shot in: Aix-en-Provence

Plays in: France, Bergues, Salon-de-Provence

Made by: Canal Plus, TF1 Films Productions, Centre National de la Cinématographie, CinéCinéma, Pathé Renn Productions, Hirsch, Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Les Productions du Chicon, Centre Régional des Ressources Audiovisuelles (CRRAV)

Original language: French (FR)

Spoken languages: French (FR)

Translated into 20 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 02/27/2008 (World premiere: 02/20/2008)

Cast: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoé Félix, Anne Marivin, Line Renaud, Stéphane Freiss, Michel Galabru, Patrick Bosso, Bruno Tuchszer, Christophe Rossignon, Claude Talpaert, Fred Personne, Guy Lecluyse, Jenny Clève, Jérôme Commandeur, Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret, Nadège Beausson-Diagne, Philippe Duquesne, Zinedine Soualem

Director: Dany Boon

Producer: Claude Berri

Screenwriter: Dany Boon, Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier

Film Editor: Luc Barnier

Director of Photography: Pierre Aïm

Composer: Philippe Rombi

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis"

"Bienvenidos al País de la Locura"

"A Riviera Não É Aqui"

"Bienvenido al país de la locura"

"Velkommen til Ch'tis"

"Bienvenidos Al Norte"

"Welcome to the Land of Shtis"

"Einai treloi aftoi oi Voreioi"

"Είναι Τρελοί Αυτοί οι Βόρειοι"

"Dobrodošli u Ch'tis"

"Isten hozott az Isten háta mögött"

"Bruhim ha'ba'im la'tzafon"

"Giù al Nord"

"ようこそ、シュティの国へ"

"Welkom in de provincie"

"Velkommen til Shti'ene"

"Bem-vindo ao Norte"

"Бобро Поржаловать"

"I en annan del av Frankrike"

"歡迎來到北方"

Keywords: social prejudices, relocation, mamas boy, community spirit, postal worker, cultural difference, bell tower, wine drinking, accents, disability fraud, jealousy, small community, hospitality, dialect, postman

Budget: 11,000,000 USD

Revenue: 245,144,417 USD (= 2,229%)

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Welcome to the Sticks(Movie, 2008)

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