''3 Dancing Slaves'' (French: ''Le Clan'') is a 2004 French film directed by
Gaël Morel
Gaël Morel (born 25 September 1972) is a French film director, screenwriter and actor.
Life and career
Morel was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône (department), Rhône, France, a town of 30,000 inhabitants outside Lyon. He grew up in the ...
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Plot
Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc (Nicolas Cazalé) is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe (Stéphane Rideau) is released from jail, lands a job, and must overcome various temptations in order to keep it. Olivier (Thomas Dumerchez), nearing 18, may be falling in love with Hicham (Salim Kechiouche), a young man who regularly practises
capoeira
Capoeira () is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics, music and spirituality. Born of the melting pot of enslaved Africans, Indigenous Brazilians and Portuguese influences at the beginning of the 16th centur ...
on the shores of the lake. Both violence and fraternity are close to the surface of most interactions. How each brother emerges from his challenge comprises the film's drama. The film discusses how these men can form a family.
Cast
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Nicolas Cazalé as Marc
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Stéphane Rideau
Stéphane Rideau (born 25 July 1976) is a French actor. Although intending to pursue a career in sports, he was discovered in 1992 at a rugby game and then auditioned for a role in the film ''Les Roseaux sauvages'' ('' Wild Reeds'') by André T� ...
as Christophe
* as Olivier
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Salim Kechiouche
Salim Kechiouche (born 2 April 1979) is a French actor.
Early life
He was born to Algerian parents. While 15 years old, he was first discovered by French actor director Gaël Morel. Morel gave him his first role in a feature film, '' À Toute ...
as Hicham
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Bruno Lochet
Bruno Lochet (born 18 October 1959) is a French actor. He is best known for playing in the cult TV series '' Les Deschiens'' (1993–2002), in which he played alongside Yolande Moreau.
Theater
Filmography
References
External links ...
as the father
* as "Professeur"
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Jackie Berroyer
Jackie Berroyer (born 24 May 1946) is a French actor, comedian and writer.
Filmography
References
External links
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1946 births
Living people
French male film actors
French male television actors
20th-c ...
as Robert
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Aure Atika
Aure Atika (born 12 July 1970) is a French actress, writer and director.
Life and career
The daughter of Jewish-Moroccan Ode Atika Bitton and Frenchman Michel Fournier (his father was born in Algeria from the Aimeur family of film actors and ...
as Emilie
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Nicolas Paz
Nicolás "Nico" Paz Martínez (born 8 September 2004) is a professional footballer currently playing as a midfielder for Spanish club Real Madrid Castilla. Born in Spain, he is a youth international for Argentina.
Club career Early life
A youth ...
as Montana
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Mathias Olivier
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* Mathias Eick, Norwegian Jazz Musicia ...
as Ryan
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Gary Mary
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*Gary (given name), a common masculine given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
*Gary, Indiana, the largest city named Gary
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;Iran
* Gary, Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan Province
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as Luc
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Geordie Piseri-Diaz
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as Jérémy
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Clément Dettli
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* Clement (name), a given name and surname
* Saint Clement (disambiguation)#People
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* Clément, French Guiana, a town
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* A ...
as Henry
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Pierre Vallin
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...
as Sly
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Janine Ribollet
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* Janine (given name)
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* "Janine" (David Bowie song), a 1969 song by David Bowie
* "Janine", a 1979 song by Trooper from the album '' Flying Colors''
* "Janine", a 1994 song by Soul Coughing f ...
as Sly's mother
References
External links
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French drama films
Gay-related films
2004 films
French LGBT-related films
LGBT-related drama films
2004 drama films
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2004 LGBT-related films
2000s French films