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Director
  
Mikael Buch

Music director
  
Eric Neveux

Country
  
France

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Duration
  

Language
  
French

Let My People Go! (2011 film) movie poster

Release date
  
August 22, 2011 (2011-08-22) (Montreal World Film Festival) December 28, 2011 (2011-12-28) (France)

Writer
  
Mikael Buch, Christophe Honore

Initial release
  
December 28, 2011 (France)

Screenplay
  
Mikael Buch, Christophe Honore

Cast
  
Nicolas Maury
(Ruben),
Carmen Maura
(Rachel),
Jean-François Stévenin
(Nathan),
Amira Casar
(Irène),
Clément Sibony
(Samuel),
Jarkko Niemi
(Teemu)

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Carmen Maura movies, Gay and lesbian movies, Comedies

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Let My People Go! is a 2011 film directed by Mikael Buch. It premiered at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival and was released in December 2011 in France. It was released in the United States in 2013 by Zeitgeist Films and grossed $18,529 domestically.

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Ruben is a French-Jewish gay mailman is living in fairytale Finland (where he got his MA in "Comparative Sauna Cultures") with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend. Just before Passover, a series of mishaps and a lovers' quarrel exile the heartbroken Reuben back to Paris and his zany family—including Carmen Maura as his ditzy mom, and Truffaut regular Jean-François Stévenin as his lothario father. Scripted by director Mikael Buch and renowned arthouse auteur Christophe Honoré, Let My People Go! both celebrates and upends Jewish and gay stereotypes.

Main cast

  • Nicolas Maury as Ruben
  • Carmen Maura as Rachel
  • Jean-François Stévenin as Nathan
  • Amira Casar as Irène
  • Clément Sibony as Samuel
  • Jarkko Niemi as Teemu
  • Jean-Luc Bideau as Maurice
  • Didier Flamand as André
  • Kari Väänänen as Monsieur Tilikainen
  • Olavi Uusivirta as Fredrik
  • Aurore Clément as Françoise
  • Michaël Abiteboul as Ézechiel
  • Charlie Dupont as Hervé

    • Awards

  • 2012: Philadelphia QFest: Best Comedic Film
  • 2012: Asheville QFest: Best Cinematography

    • Reception

    "A fairy-tale romance whose title acknowledges both a saturation in and longing to be free of Jewish cultural baggage, Mikael Buch's Let My People Go!cross-breeds cultures that are rarely paired onscreen. International box-office prospects are fair in urban arthouses, where the presence of Almodóvar collaborator Carmen Maura may tip moviegoers off to the pop-inflected, comic semi-scandals in store." -John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter

    References

    Let My People Go! (2011 film) Wikipedia
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