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Elephant

OT: Elephant

Gus Van Sant // USA, 2003
Fiction Feature // FF2003

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Story

Winner of the Golden Palm in Cannes, 2003. Director Gus van Sant here turns his hand to a highly explosive topic: a high-school shooting. Shot in a semi-documentary, lyrical style, van Sant’s camera floats down the school corridors, showing the everyday trials and tribulations of kids at a normal American highschool. Except that this particular day, one boy will receive a parcel he ordered on the Internet from www.guns.usa…

Director

Gus van Sant, (*1952) made his directorial debut 1985 with Mala Noche. His work includes My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester.

Info

Elephant

Fiction Feature

English

Offizielles Programm//FF2003


USA

2003

81 min

OV

Gus Van Sant

Gus Van Sant

Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson, Elias McConnell

Dany Wolf

Harris Savides

Gus Van Sant

Leslie Shatz

Benjamin Hayden

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