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Sony Pictures Classics
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Serendipity Point Films
Odessa Films
Astral Media
Téléfilm Canada
Corus Entertainment
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The Statement
At the end of World War II, many of those involved in war crimes were prosecuted. Some got away. Until now.
Overview
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans...
Key Crew
Producer: Robyn Slovo, Norman Jewison, Robert Lantos, Yannick Bernard, Sandra Cunningham
Director: Norman Jewison
Writer: Ronald Harwood
Director of Photography: Kevin Jewison
Top Cast
Michael Caine
Pierre Brossard
Tilda Swinton
Annemarie Livi
Jeremy Northam
Colonel Roux
Alan Bates
Armand Bertier
Charlotte Rampling
Nicole
John Neville
Old Man
Ciarán Hinds
Pochon
Frank Finlay
Commissaire Vionnet
Videos
Official Trailer - THE STATEMENT (2003, Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton)
