An elderly Turkish Muslim grocer befriends a lonely teenage Jewish boy in a working class section of Paris. An elderly Turkish widower befriends a lonely teenage boy in a working class section of Paris.
Publisher:Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, c2004.
General Note: Winner! National Board of Review, One of the Top Five Foreign Films.Cesar Awards, Best Actor/2003 AFI Film Festival, Lifetime Tributee, Omar Sharif.Venice Film Festival 2003: Best Actor, Audience Award, Career Golden Lion.In French with optional English, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles.Home use only.For specific added features see container or interactive features menu while viewing disc.Originally released as a motion picture in 2003.Digital video disc."Golden Globe nominee: Best Foreign Language Film"--Container.Special features: Omar Sharif audio commentary.1.66:1 widescreen.Based on the novel Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt.Program content : ARP and France 3 Cinema, 2003.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Un film de François Dupeyron ; producers, Laurent Pétin, Michèle Pétin ; writers, François Dupeyron. LINCOLN
Participant or Performer Note: Omar Sharif.Omar Sharif with Pierre Boulanger, Gilbert Melki, Isabelle Renauld, Lola Naymark and Anne Suarez.
Awards Note:
Venice Film Festival 2003: Best Actor, Audience Award, Career Golden Lion.
Cesar Awards, Best Actor/2003 AFI Film Festival, Lifetime Tributee, Omar Sharif.
Winner! National Board of Review, One of the Top Five Foreign Films.