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Director
  
Stephanie Valloatto

Country
  
France

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Duration
  

Language
  
French

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Release date
  
19 May 2014 (2014-05-19) (Cannes)28 May 2014 (2014-05-28) (France)

Writer
  
Radu Mihaileanu, Stephanie Valloatto

Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers of Democracy (French: Caricaturistes - Fantassins de la démocratie) is a 2014 documentary film directed by Stéphanie Valloatto about 12 cartoonists around the world who risk their lives to defend democracy. The film premiered in the Special Screenings section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The film was nominated for the César Award for Best Documentary Film at the 40th César Awards.

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Featuring

  • Plantu, French cartoonist
  • Jeff Danziger, American cartoonist
  • Rayma Suprani, Venezuelan cartoonist
  • Angel Boligan, Cuban-Mexican cartoonist
  • Mikhail Zlatkovsky, Russian cartoonist
  • Michel Kichka, Belgian-Israeli cartoonist
  • Baha Boukhari, Palestinian cartoonist
  • Zoho (Lassane Zohore), Ivorian cartoonist
  • Damien Glez, Franco-Burkinabé cartoonist
  • Willis from Tunis (Nadia Khiari), Tunisian cartoonist
  • Slim (Menouar Merabtene), Algerian cartoonist
  • Pi San (Wang Bo), Chinese cartoonist

    • Release

    Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers of Democracy premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival on 19 May. A public preview screening of the film was held at the Place de la République in Paris on 23 May 2014, before its theatrical release on 28 May.

    On 7 January and 9 January 2015, the film was broadcast on Canal+ and France 3 respectively, in tribute to victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack.

    The film was released on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD on 2 December 2014.

    References

    Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers of Democracy Wikipedia
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    Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers of Democracy IMDb Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers of Democracy themoviedb.org


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