The Statement (2003)
December 12, 2003Release Date
The Statement (2003)
December 12, 2003Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Michael Caine
Pierre Brossard
Tilda Swinton
Annemarie Livi
Jeremy Northam
Colonel Roux
Alan Bates
Armand Bertier
Charlotte Rampling
Nicole
John Neville
Old Man
Ciarán Hinds
Pochon
Frank Finlay
Commissaire Vionnet
William Hutt
Le Moyne
Matt Craven
David Manenbaum
Noam Jenkins
Michael Levy
Peter Wight
Inspector Cholet
Malcolm Sinclair
Cardinal of Lyon
Colin Salmon
Father Patrice
David de Keyser
Dom André (as David De Keyser)
Christian Erickson
Father Joseph
Dominic Gould
Captain Durand
Peter Hudson
Professor Valentin
Joseph Malerba
Max
Irene Palko
Clotilde
George Wills
Young Brossard (as George Williams)
Edward Petherbridge
Dom Vladimir
John Boswall
Father Léo
Joseph Long
Bishop
Wolfgang Pissors
German Soldier
Daniel Lundh
Bertier's Secretary
Brian Moore
Novel
Robyn Slovo
Producer
Norman Jewison
Director / Producer
Robert Lantos
Producer
Jean Rabasse
Production Design
Nathalie Chéron
Casting
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The Statement is a 2003 drama film directed by Norman Jewison and starring Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Alan Bates, William Hutt, John Neville and Charlotte Rampling.
Based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Brian Moore, the screenplay by Ronald Harwood is inspired by the true story of Paul Touvier, a Vichy French police official who was indicted after World War II for ordering the execution of seven Jews in retaliation for the French Resistance's assassination of Vichy France minister Philippe Henriot. For decades after the war, he escaped trial thanks to an intricate web of protection, which allegedly included senior members of the Roman Catholic priesthood. He was arrested in 1989 inside a Traditionalist Catholic priory in Nice and was convicted in 1994. He died in prison in 1996, at the age of 81.
The Statement is the last film by Jewison before his retirement. It was also Bates's final theatrical role prior to his death in the year of the film’s release.