Victor Young Perez Press Kit
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Victor Young Perez Press Kit
SEVENTH ART RELEASING PRESENTS A MAZEL PRODUCTIONS AND NOÉ PRODUCTIONS FILM VICTOR YOUNG PEREZ DIRECTED BY JACQUES OUANICHE *Best Feature Nominee, Sao Paulo International Film Festival *Official Selection Haifa International Film Festival *Official Selection Santa Barbara International Film Festival *Official Selection Festival of Tolerance 2014, 110 min., unrated Updates: http://7thart.com/category/Victor-Young-Perez Sales James Eowan [email protected] 323.259.8259 phone www.7thart.com Booking & Publicity Sarah Winshall [email protected] 323.259.8259 phone 7TH ART RELEASING twitter.com/7thartreleasing facebook.com/7thartreleasing SHORT SYNOPSIS Victor "Young" Perez , tells the astonishing, harrowing and incredible true story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. His romance with the French-Italian actress Mireille Balin increased his fame. But because of his Jewish heritage, Perez was arrested in Paris on September 21, 1943 and transported to Auschwitz. Whilst there he was forced to participate in boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazis. LONG SYNOPSIS Victor, his older brother Benjamin, a boxer, and their friends Rashid and Maxo are young brawlers. A prominent boxing manager from Paris, Léon Beillères, is in Tunis. He decides to give Victor a chance. On incredibly short notice, Victor jumps in for his injured brother Benjamin and wins. It is an undisputed victory. Beillères takes Victor and Benjamin to Paris with him. Victor is soon given the fashionable nickname “Young” Perez. In Paris, a new life begins for Young. At the age of 20,”Young” becomes World Champion in the Flyweight class, winning the title against its American defender after a thrilling and highly charged match. A national hero in Tunisia, Young is now also a new star in the world of French sports, the most popular of his time. All of Paris wants a piece of him. He meets Mireille Balin, a young actress, and falls madly in love with her. Young's new and extravagant lifestyle sends him spiraling into a downward of love and money. While Mireille's acting career blossoms thanks to Victor's fame, Young himself loses his boxing title and amasses a huge debt. His manager drops him, Mireille leaves him and Benjamin moves back to Tunisia. Young has become a second-rate boxer, who accepts every offer he gets. One of these offers leads him to a boxing match in Berlin, where he experiences the Reichskristallnacht. World War II breaks out. Young decides to stay in France nevertheless. But the noose is tightening its grip. One night, he sees Mireille at Maxim’s with a Wehrmacht officer. Victor becomes wild with rage and knocks out the German officer. He is arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz. In the concentration camp, Young is recognized by the camp's Nazi commandant. A match is organized in the middle of the camp: Victor has to fight Kurtz, a Nazi soldier and professional boxer who is 20 kilos heavier. This ultimate combat is organized by the Nazis to prove the superiority of the Aryan race. Director’s Biography Jacques Ouaniche is a French scriptwriter, producer, director and writer. In 2003, after a number of early projects, his collaboration with director Abdellatif Kéchiche resulted in "Games of Love and Chance" (2004), a film that ultimately won 15 international awards, including France's César awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Writing and Most Promising Actress. The film featured Sarah Forestier in her breakthrough role and also effectively launched the career of Kéchiche, who most recently won the 2013 Palme d'Or in Cannes for "Blue Is the Warmest Colour". Among his other productions are "3 petites filles" (2004), a film directed by Jean Loup Hubert with Gérard Jugnot and Adriana Karembeu, focusing on the story of a young girl portrayed by Sabrina Ouazani who flees a forced marriage in Algeria. "All Night Bodega" (2004) is a multiple award-winning film directed by Félix Olivier about a young girl growing up hard and fast in New York's Spanish Harlem. Of late, Ouaniche has been focusing largely on feature films and recently cowritten the screenplay for "Victor Young Perez," a film he's been developing for over seven years. CAST LIST "Young" Perez Brahim ASLOUM Benjamin Perez Steve SUISSA Mireille Balin Isabella ORSINI Maxo Davy SARDOU Léon Beillères Patrick BOUCHITEY Lager Kommandant Bruce PAYNE TECHNICAL LIST A film by: Jacques OUANICHE Screenplay : Yoni DARMON et Jacques OUANICHE Produced by : Nelly KAFSKY et Jacques OUANICHE Mazel Productions/ Noé Production Int Line Producer : Mazel Productions/ Nelly KAFSKY Production Managers : Jean-Dominique CHOUCHAN Gianfranco PIERANTONI – Gianni SARAGÓ - Pierantoni and Partners - Marek ROZENBAUM - Thomas ALFANDARI - Transfax Film Productions LTD Production designer : Laure BALZAN-SORIN Director of casting : Gérard MOULEVRIER Music : Didier LOCKWOOD – Edited by Noé Productions int et Mazel Productions Director of photography: Pierre-Yves BASTARD First AD: Patrick ROQUES Camera operator: Yves MICHAUD Sound : Jérôme AYASSE Art directors: Ariel GLAZER - Laure BALZAN-SORIN - Boriana MINCHEVA Make-up designer: Isabelle KINDINIS ABRIOL Script supervisor: Elisabeth ALEXANDRIS Costume designer: Edith VESPERINI Hair-stylist: Hai SHUSAN - Frédéric ZAID - Didi STOYANOVA CFO Mazel Productions – Noé Productions : Dominique MINSKI - Hadra KEMON Film editor : Emmanuelle MIMRAN Assistant editor : Léa CHATAURET Sound designer: Stéphane RABEAU - Thomas LEFEVRE Post-Production supervisor: Laurent DUPRÉ Coproducers : France 3 CINEMA – Daniel GOUDIEANU – Aurélie ROUVIERE Transfax Films Productions – Marek ROZENBAUM – Thomas ALFANDARI Greenhouse Media Investment in association with Mr Significant Films Executive Producers James DALY and Nick MUNDAY
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