Strange Gardens

Strange Gardens

95 mins | Drama, Comedy | March 26, 2003

Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Lucien’s father’s strange behavior.

Strange Gardens

95 mins | Drama, Comedy | March 26, 2003

Strange Gardens
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Lucien’s father’s strange behavior.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers France 2 Cinéma, Canal+, UGC, France 3 Cinéma, ICE3
Original title Effroyables Jardins
Directors Jean Becker
Writers Michel Quint, Jean Cosmos, Jean Becker, Guillaume Laurant

Cast

Jacques Villeret

as Jacques Pouzay

André Dussollier

as André Designy

Thierry Lhermitte

as Thierry Plaisance

Benoît Magimel

as Emile Bailleul

Suzanne Flon

as Marie Gerbier

Isabelle Candelier

as Louise, Jacques' wife

Victor Garrivier

as Félix Gerbier

Bernard Collins

as Bernd

Damien Jouillerot

as Lucien, Jacques's son

Jean-Claude Durand

as Raoul, aka 'Cul Fanny'

Michel Cordes

as Boss of the shooting

Nina-Paloma Polly

as Françoise, Jacques' daughter

Maxime Fouard

as Paulo

Romain Provvedi

as Maurice

Mélanie Baxter-Jones

as Emile's daughter in 1944

Juliette Delfau

as Girl at the village hall

Romaine Friess

as Girl at the village hall

Jacques Giraud

as Station master

Gilles Jacquet

as Rural warden

Bernard Bolzinger

as Man in town hall

Manfred Andrae

as Major

Alexander Held

as SS officer

Michael Hanemann

as Sergeant

Ernst-Georg Schwill

as Sergeant at the station

Karl Jürgen Sihler

as SS interpreter

Oliver Stern

as Referral sentry

Cédric Weber

as Orderly

Rémi Thiberge

as Karl

Markus Fennert

as Fritz