The City of Lost Children

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The City of Lost Children
The City of Lost Children Promotional Movie Poster (France)
Directed by	Jean-Pierre Jeunet Marc Caro
Produced by	Félicie Dutertre
Written by	Gilles Adrien Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring	Ron Perlman Daniel Emilfork Judith Vittet Dominique Pinon
Music by	Angelo Badalamenti
Cinematography	Eric Caro Philippe LeSourd Darius Khondji
Editing by	Ailo August Herve Shneid
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release date(s)	May 17, 1995
Running time	112 min.
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$18,000,000

The City of Lost Children (French: La Cité des enfants perdus) is a dystopian French fantasy/drama film by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet released in 1995. The film is stylistically related to the previous and subsequent Jeunet films, Delicatessen and Amélie.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Video game 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Plot

The movie revolves around a plot by the mad scientist Krank (Daniel Emilfork), who kidnaps children to steal their dreams. Among them is the little brother of carnival strongman One (Ron Perlman), who sets out to rescue him and stop Krank. Aided by an orphan girl named Miette (Judith Vittet), he eventually manages to overcome many obstacles and stops Krank.

[edit] Cast

• Ron Perlman as One
• Daniel Emilfork as Krank
• Judith Vittet as Miette
• Dominique Pinon as the diver
• Jean-Claude Dreyfus as Marcello
• Rufus as Peeler
• Ticky Holgado as Ex-acrobat
• Marc Caro as Brother Ange-Joseph
• Jean-Louis Trintignant as L'oncle Irvin (voice)
• Mathieu Kassovitz as Man on the street (uncredited)

[edit] Video game

• A video game based on this film was released in the US and in parts of Europe on the Sony PlayStation video game console and on the PC.^[1]

[edit] See also

• Cinema of France
• List of French language films
• Steampunk

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The City of Lost Children at the Internet Movie Database
• The City of Lost Children at Allmovie
• The City of Lost Children Website Sony Pictures
• Screenshots

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