The Man Who Cried (2000)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Sally Potter

Writer:

Sally Potter (written by)

Release Date:

22 September 2000 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama | Music | Romance | War

Plot:

A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.

Plot Keywords:

America | Gypsy | Village | Dancing | England

Awards:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Christina Ricci	...	Suzie
Oleg Yankovskiy	...	Father
Claudia Lander-Duke	...	Young Suzie
Danny Scheinmann	...	Man in Suit
Anna Tzelniker	...	Mother of Man in Suit
Barry Davis	...	Man in Village
Thom Osborn	...	Man in Village
Frank Chersky	...	Man in Village
Daniel Hart	...	Man in Village
Peter Majer	...	Man in Village
Hana Maria Pravda	...	Grandmother
Ayala Meir	...	Child
Abraham Hassan	...	Child
Lloyd Martin	...	Child
Uri Meir	...	Child

Also Known As:

The man who cried - Les larmes d'un homme (France)

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality.

Runtime:

100 min | Italy:97 min (Venice Film Festival)

Country:

UK | France

Language:

English | Yiddish | Russian | French | Italian | Romany | Romanian

Color:

Black and White | Color (Duboicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

Certification:

Finland:K-11 | USA:R (certificate #37649) | Iceland:12 | South Korea:15 | Argentina:13 | Canada:14A (video rating) | France:U | Germany:12 (w) | Hong Kong:IIB | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Bourne Woods, Farnham, Surrey, England, UK

Company:

Canal+

Trivia:

The scenes where the people of Paris are shown leaving town because of Nazi occupation were shot just before the morning traffic jammed the streets.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In the scene where Suzie is following Cesare and his friends on her bike, they go through a passage where you can see the Eiffel Tower in the background and it is lit up. However, the lights were not added to the Tower until 1986.

Quotes:

Lola: It's dangerous to love.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Cinemania: I anodos kai i ptosi tou Nazismou" (2008)

Soundtrack:

Gloomy Sunday

I will buy the soundtrack for this movie tomorrow.

The athmosphere in this film is created by using rich textures and suggestions of scent. It is carried to the audience by heart wrenching music, which touches all senses, enabling the viewer to fill their soul with unearthly beauty. In the wealth of sound and scenes, which are full of symbolism, words become unnecessary, the actors secondary and the direction, supreme. Pure theatre.