Eyjafjallajökull () or ''Le Volcan'' in

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is a 2013 French comedy film directed by Alexandre Coffre.

Plot summary

Divorced couple Valérie and Alain make their way to their daughter's wedding in a small Greek village during the

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Eyjafjallajökull Eyjafjallajökull (; "glacier of (the mountain) Eyjafjöll"), sometimes referred to by the numeronym E15, is one of the smaller ice caps of Iceland, north of Skógar and west of Mýrdalsjökull. The ice cap covers the caldera of a volcano wi ...

, which grounds many airplanes in

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Cast

Valérie Bonneton Valérie Bonneton (born 5 April 1970) is a French actress. Life and career Bonneton was born in Somain, Nord department. Her father was an insurance salesman and her mother a housewife. She grew up in neighbouring Aniche and fell in love ...

— Valérie *

Dany Boon Dany Boon (; born Daniel Farid Hamidou on 26 June 1966) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. Starting out as a comedian during the 1990s, he found success in 2008 as an actor and director in the film comedy '' Welcome to ...

— Alain *

Denis Ménochet Denis Ménochet (born 18 September 1976) is a French actor. Ménochet is best known to international audiences for his role as Perrier LaPadite, a French dairy farmer interrogated by the Nazis for harboring Jews in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino fil ...

— Ezéchiel *

Bérangère McNeese Bérangère McNeese (born March 15, 1989) is a Belgian-USA, American actress, screenwriter, and filmmaker. Bérangère McNeese was born in Brussels to a Belgian mother and an American father. As she says in interviews, she spent half of her chi ...

— Cécile *

Albert Delpy Albert Delpy (born 13 September 1940) is a French actor and writer, born in Vietnam. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1970. Personal life He was married to French actress Marie Pillet until her death in 2009. They are the pare ...

— Tonton Roger * Constance Dollé — Sylvie *

Malik Bentalha Malik Bentalha (, ; born 1 March 1989 in Bagnols-sur-Cèze) is a French humorist and actor of Algerian and Moroccan descent. He does stand-up comedy and has appeared in films. Early life Malik Bentalha studied at the Cours Florent from 2007 to ...

— Cécile's friend *

Tiphaine Daviot Tiphaine is a francophone The Francophonie or Francophone world is the whole body of people and organisations around the world who use the French language regularly for private or public purposes. The term was coined by Onésime Reclus in 1 ...

— Cécile's friend * Valentine Carette — Joshina * Myriam Azencot — Airplane seatmate *

Arnaud Henriet Arnaud Henriet is a French actor.Aurélie Binoist, ''TF1 TF1 (; standing for ''Télévision Française 1'') is a French commercial television network owned by TF1 Group, controlled by the Bouygues conglomerate. TF1's average market share of 2 ...

— Alain's airplane seatmate * Yann Sorton — Stewart the Greek *

Jochen Hägele Jochen Hägele (born 1975) is a German film and television actor. Specializes also in French dubbing, he is the voice-over artist of Daniel Brühl. Early life Jochen Hägele is born in 1975 in Stuttgart, Germany. In 1976, his family moved in Fran ...

— German Avis Agent * Barbara Ornellas — Woman in motorcoach * Brigitte Böttrich — B&B Owner * Markus Baumeister — Gas station man * Magdalena Steinlein — Gas station girl * Joan Pascu — Coach driver * Joze Zalar —Supporter in the bus * Jernej Campelj — Hotel night receptionist Slovenia * Sanja Marin — Hotel day receptionist Slovenia * Amar Bukvic — Police Officer 1 Ljubljana Airport * Frano Domitrovic — Police Officer 2 Ljubljana Airport * Adnan Palangic — Erion * Bozidar Smiljanic — Osman * Thodoros Katsafados — Greek chief of police * Chryssa Florou — Greek translator * Bartholomew Boutellis — Stavros * Filippos Zografos —The Pope * Athina Masoura — Choir 1 * Ioannis Papazoglou — Choir 2

Soundtrack

hums the song Cécile, ma fille by

Claude Nougaro Claude Nougaro (, ; 9 September 1929 – 4 March 2004) was a French jazz singer and poet. Life and career Claude Nougaro was born on 9 September 1929 in Toulouse to a respected French opera singer, Pierre Nougaro, and a piano teacher, Liette ...

throughout the film.

Original Soundtrack

The movie's

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was composed by Thomas Roussel and published by

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. It contains a CD of eighteen tracks released on 30 September 2013.

References

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