''Maedeli la brèche'' is a 1980 Belgian

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written and directed by

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. The film starred Nico d'Oreye, Julie Dubart, Colette Forton, Marie-José Mgank and Jean-François Dufranne.

Production

The short film was shot in 1980 in Belgium with a

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camera. The original music score was written by

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, Jaco's brother. Van Dormael wrote the film while he was a student at the INSAS in

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Response

On June 7, 1981, ''Maedeli la brèche'' won the Honorary Foreign Film Award at the 8th

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presented by the

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. It was awarded the Best Screenplay and the Best Short Film at the 1981 Festival de Bruxelles. It also received the Channel 4 Award at the 1983 Munich Film Festival. In 2011, it appeared at the Sottodiciotto Filmfestival held in Turin in the retrospective dedicated to Van Dormael.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maedeli la breche 1980 films 1980 short films Belgian short films 1980s Swedish-language films 1980s French-language films Films directed by Jaco Van Dormael 1980 multilingual films Belgian multilingual films Student Academy Award-winning films French-language short films