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Ceasefire (Cessez-le-feu)
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the company of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War. From village to village, Georges uses Diofo's talents as a griot to recruit the villagers as labour for plantations in Ghana. But this adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Nantes where his brother Marcel, a war invalid, lives with their mother's. After the war in Europe, life went on without him. Georges will desperately try to find his place, with the help of Helene, a sign language teacher with whom he will have a tumultuous relationship, and his family, that he selfishly left behind. He will finally attempt to heal their wounds...
Céline Sallette....Hélène
Grégory Gadebois....Marcel Laffont
Julie-Marie Parmentier....Madeleine
Maryvonne Schiltz....Louise Laffont
Wabinlé Nabié....Diofo
Yvon Martin....Fabrice
Benjamin Jungers....Jean Laffont (as Benjamin Jungers de la Comédie Française)
Arnaud Dupont....Philippe
Morwenna Spagnol....Amie Philippe
Thierry Bosc....Le docteur Gagneux
Mathilde Courcol-Rozès....Angèle
Armand Eloi....Debaecker
Fabrice Eberhard....Lavandier - un collectionneur d'objets africains
Alexandre Gautreau....Raulic
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