The Corridor

A young couple finds themselves in a very serious financial predicament. The man is jobless and spends his days wandering through the streets with hardly enough in his pockets to buy a little something to eat.

Due to his extreme weakness, he happens to faint one day in front of a shop window. It's thus that he meets the shop owner, an old man who offers him a job. His work consists in sitting all day long to guard the door to a small room at the back of the corridor which contains objects of value sought after by thieves.

But the very reality of said thieves' existence becomes more and more dubious. Is this then some swindle on the part of the old shopkeeper? A whim? Or a painful initiation to the revelation of a world beyond reality?

Direction Script

Alain Gagnol

Graphism

Jean-Loup Felicioli

Category

short films

Length

17 min 18 sec

Public

adults

Production

Folimage, Studio Film Bilder, Arte France

Distribution

In French theaters Special screenings International sales

Awards / Festivals

Prix Festivals : 

- Grand Prix, Rencontres Internationales du cinéma d'animation, Wissembourg 2005
- Prix du Jury du court noir, Festival Polar dans la ville, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines 2006
- Mention Spéciale du Jury, Festival Animafest, Zagreb 2006
- Special Prize, Festival d'Hiroshima 2006
- Prix du meilleur court métrage, Festival Cinanima Espinho 2006 

Technical information

Technicals

drawings on paper

Genre(s)

drama

Theme(s)

madness

French visa number

106 340

Process

couleur

Available print(s)

35mm, DVD

Available version(s)

French version, French version with English subtitles

Image ratio (theaters)

1:66

Sound

Dolby SR

HD

non

Dialogues

oui

Year of production

2005

Credits

Producer(s)

Jacques-Rémy Girerd, Patrick Eveno 

Animation

Alain Gagnol, Sylvie Léonard

Decors

Jean-Loup Felicioli

Compositing

Patrick Tallaron

Music

Spencer Williams " Basin street blues " interprété par / played by Louis Armstrong

Sound

Loïc Burkhardt

Editing

Hervé Guichard

Voice(s)

Christian Taponard, Gilles Morel, Karen Stassman

Available on DVD
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