''Lost in Transit'' (original title: ''Tombés du ciel''; literally "Fallen from the Sky") is a 1993 French
comedy-drama film directed by
Philippe Lioret
Philippe Lioret (born 10 October 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on ...
. The film is about a man who loses his passport and spends a couple of days at a Paris airport, where he meets four people in similar circumstances. The film won the Grand Prize at the 6th
Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival
The , also sometimes called YIFFF, is held in a resort-like environment in the small town of Yūbari on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaidō. From 1990 to 1999, the festival was known as the Yubari International Fantastic Adventure Fil ...
held in February 1995.
The film was inspired by the predicament of
Mehran Karimi Nasseri
Mehran Karimi Nasseri ( fa, مهران کریمی ناصری pronounced ; 1945 – 12 November 2022), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, was an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 ...
.
Cast
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Jean Rochefort as Arturo Conti
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Marisa Paredes
María Luisa Paredes Bartolomé (born 3 April 1946), known professionally as Marisa Paredes, is a Spanish actress.
Biography
Paredes began acting in 1960 film, '' 091 Policia al Habla'' (''091, Police Speaking!'') She became a teen idol across ...
as Suzana, Arturo's wife
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Ticky Holgado
Ticky Holgado (24 June 1944, in Toulouse – 22 January 2004, in Paris), pseudonym of Joseph Holgado, was a French actor and a frequent collaborator with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
With ''Delicatessen'' (1991) by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, Tic ...
as Serge
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Laura del Sol
Laura del Sol (born 27 November 1961) is a Spanish flamenco dancer and film actress, specially well known for her titular role in Carlos Saura's 1983 film '' Carmen''. She worked with Saura and Antonio Gades in ''El Amor brujo'', and in Italy, sh ...
as Angela
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Sotigui Kouyaté
Sotigui Kouyaté (19 July 1936 – 17 April 2010) was one of the first Malian, Burkinabé actors. He was the father of film director Dani Kouyaté, of the storyteller Hassane Kassi Kouyaté and of the actor Mabô Kouyaté
and was a member of th ...
as Knak
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Ismaïla Meite as Zola
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Jean-Louis Richard
Jean-Louis Richard (17 May 1927 – 3 June 2012) was a French actor, film director and scriptwriter.
Biography
Born as Jean Marius Richard in Paris, Richard was Jeanne Moreau's first husband from 1949 to 1951.
Partial filmography
*1960: '' À ...
as Monsieur Armanet
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José Artur as Newspaper shop keeper
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Olivier Saladin as Restaurant manager
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Philippe Duquesne
Philippe Duquesne (born 30 June 1965) is a French actor. He is best known for playing in the cult TV series '' Les Deschiens'' (1993–2002), in which he plays alongside Yolande Moreau
Yolande Moreau (born 27 February 1953) is a Belgian come ...
as C.R.S.
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François Morel
François Morel (14 March 1926 – 14 January 2018) was a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 1994 and was awarded t ...
as Policeman
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Claude Derepp as Bébert, policeman
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Jacques Mathou
Jacques Mathou is a French actor, best known for his appearance in ''Delicatessen''.
Filmography
* 1985 : '' Tranches de vie''
* 1986 : ''Betty Blue'', Bob
* 1987 : ''L'été en pente douce''
* 1987 : '' Si le soleil ne revenait pas''
* 1989 : ' ...
as Policeman
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Christian Sinniger as Policeman
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Yves Osmu as Policeman
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Dimitri Radochevitch Dimitri may refer
People
* Dmitry, a male given name, Slavic version of Greek name Demetrios
* Dimitri (clown) (1935–2016), Swiss clown and mime
* Dimitri Atanasescu, Ottoman-born Aromanian teacher
* Dimitri from Paris, French DJ
* Dimitri Flower ...
as Bus driver
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Pierre LaPlace
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (; ; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarized ...
as Inspector
Accolades
See also
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Mehran Karimi Nasseri
Mehran Karimi Nasseri ( fa, مهران کریمی ناصری pronounced ; 1945 – 12 November 2022), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, was an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 ...
* ''
Flight
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'', 1998 opera
* ''
The Terminal
''The Terminal'' is a 2004 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Stanley Tucci. The film is about an Eastern European man who is stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy ...
'', a 2004 film directed by
Steven Spielberg, based on a similar story.
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List of people who have lived at airports
This is a list of people notable for living for periods of more than a week in airports. The reasons are usually protesting, asylum seeking or having holiday difficulties, having difficulty with visas and passports.
List of residents
See als ...
Notes
External links
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cinemovies.fr entry
1993 films
1993 comedy-drama films
Films directed by Philippe Lioret
French comedy-drama films
1990s French-language films
Films about friendship
Films set in airports
1990s French films
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