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Aaltra
Sign in to saveAaltra is a 2004 Belgian French-language deadpan black comedy film directed and written by Gustave de Kervern and Benoît Delépine. The film won four awards and was nominated for three others.
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6.2In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their rage on each other but on the manufacturer of the tractor, in Helsinki. So get ready for a hilarious wheelchair road movie.
Cast
- Benoît Delépine as Employee
- Gustave Kervern as Farm Labourer
- Michel de Gavre as Peasant
- Isabelle Delépine as Employee's Spouse
- Gérard Condejean as Chinois Man
- Pierre Ghenassia as Boss
Themes
- tractor
- dark comedy
- belgium
- wheelchair user
- love-hate relationship
- motor sport
- farmer
- finland
- road movie
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Ratings
IMDb
6.9/10
2,968 votes
- Year
- 2004
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- 4 wins & 5 nominations
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 92
- FilmAffinity ID
- 557933
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- publication date
- 2006-05-04
- title
- Aaltra
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8 sectionsContents
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- Cast
- Accolades
- Won
- Nominations
- See also
- References
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Aaltra is a 2004 Belgian French-language deadpan black comedy film directed and written by Gustave de Kervern and Benoît Delépine. The film won four awards and was nominated for three others.
==Plot== Benoit Delepine plays a harassed businessman who, frazzled by commuting to his office, is working from home against company rules. While arguing with a jobbing farmworker (Gustave Kervern), whose tractor is spraying herbicide into his garden he is summoned to the office by his angry bosses. However, his car becomes stuck behind the tractor. The farmworker will not let him pass, resulting in the businessman missing the train and losing his job. Frustrated, he seeks out the farmworker and assaults him.