La nuit a dévoré le monde

  • 94'
  • France
  • 2017

A busy party in a Paris townhouse. Sam says goodbye to his ex-girlfriend and then wants to get out as fast as possible – but not without his music collection, which is still in the office. So he decides to wait until things have calmed down. But this poor twenty-something has no chance.

When he wakes up the next day and unlocks the door, it turns out all the party guests have been transformed into bloodthirsty zombies. Along with the rest of the French capital, where the last normal people are dying in the streets. Sam is relatively safe indoors. He locks the snappy-jawed undead in their apartments – the rest of the chic building becomes his own private island, crammed with food and survival tools. But how long can he stand the silence and solitude?

Whereas Tom Hanks in Cast Away had a volleyball, in The Night Eats the World Sam starts to talk to a locked-up zombie.
Robinson Crusoe in a blood-spattered Paris.

Director
Dominique Rocher
Premiere
International premiere
Country of production
France
Year
2017
Festival Edition
IFFR 2018
Length
94'
Medium
DCP
International title
The Night Eats the World
Languages
Norwegian, English
Producer
Carole Scotta / Haut et Court
Production Company
Haut et Court
Sales
WT Films
Screenplay
Dominique Rocher, Guillaume Lemans, Jérémie Guez
Cinematography
Jordane Chouzenoux
Editor
Isabelle Manquillet
Production Design
Sidney Dubois
Sound Design
Nicolas Becker, Maxence Dussère, Vincent Cosson
Music
David Gubitsch
Cast
Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant, Sigrid Bouaziz, David Kammenos
Director
Dominique Rocher
Premiere
International premiere
Country of production
France
Year
2017
Festival Edition
IFFR 2018
Length
94'
Medium
DCP
International title
The Night Eats the World
Languages
Norwegian, English
Producer
Carole Scotta / Haut et Court
Production Company
Haut et Court
Sales
WT Films
Screenplay
Dominique Rocher, Guillaume Lemans, Jérémie Guez
Cinematography
Jordane Chouzenoux
Editor
Isabelle Manquillet
Production Design
Sidney Dubois
Sound Design
Nicolas Becker, Maxence Dussère, Vincent Cosson
Music
David Gubitsch
Cast
Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant, Sigrid Bouaziz, David Kammenos