THE SOWER

SEMEUR, LE

By Marine FRANCEN

CELLULOID DREAMS - as SALES

Drama - Completed 2017

1850 - a mountain village is brutally deprived of all its men following the repression of the Republicans ordered by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. The young women take an oath: if a man comes, he will be for all the women.

Festivals
& Awards

San Sebastian FF 2017
New Directors Kutxabank-New Directors Award
RDV Unifrance 2018
Berlin European Film Market (EFM) 2018
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 98 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Marine FRANCEN
    • Producer(s)
    • Sylvie PIALAT (LES FILMS DU WORSO), Benoit QUAINON (LES FILMS DU WORSO)
    • Synopsis
    • Violette is old enough to marry in 1852 when her mountain village is brutally deprived of all its men following the repression of the Republicans ordered by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. The women spend months in total isolation. Desperate to one day see their men again, they take an oath: if a man comes, he will be for everyone. Life must continue in the belly of each and every one of them.