Le radeau de la Méduse (1998)
2h 10m
Running Time
July 15, 1998Release Date
Le radeau de la Méduse (1998)
2h 10m
Running Time
July 15, 1998Release Date
Plot.
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs Rochefort for Senegal in 1816. After striking a sandbar off the African coast, 150 civilians row safely to shore, but Captain Chaumareys (Jean Yanne) orders 140 soldiers and sailors onto a raft (minus supplies) and has it cut loose. Only 14 survive from the 140, creating a scandal back in France. Gericault (Laurent Terzieff) later talks to three of the survivors while researching his painting. Work on this film began in 1987, but sets destroyed by Hurricane Hugo caused delays, so the film was not completed until 1990. However, it then remained undistributed until an incident in which writer-director Azimi slashed his wrists in front of French Ministry of Culture officials.
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Cast & Crew.

Jean Yanne
Chaumareys

Daniel Mesguich
Coudein

Claude Jade
Reine Schmaltz

Philippe Laudenbach
Julien Schmaltz

Alain Macé
Coudein

Rufus
Harmonica

Victor Garrivier
Richefort

Michel Baumann
Maître d'équipage
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
france
sea
shipwreck
senegal
Wiki.
Le Radeau de la Méduse (English: The Raft of the Medusa) is a French film by Iranian film director Iradj Azimi. It is based on the 1816 wreck of the French frigate Méduse, and the 1819 painting Le Radeau de la Méduse by Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault which depicts the event. Filming began in 1987, but was interrupted by Hurricane Hugo in September 1989, which delayed completion of the film until the following year. Distribution of film then languished for several years, until Azimi cut his wrist in front of officials of the French Ministry of Culture.
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