Calvaire (film)

Calvaire
Official theatrical poster
Directed byFabrice Du Welz
Written byFabrice Du Welz
Romain Protat
Produced byMichael Gentile
Eddy Géradon-Luyckx
Vincent Tavier
StarringLaurent Lucas
Jackie Berroyer
Philippe Nahon
CinematographyBenoît Debie
Edited bySabine Hubeaux
Music byVincent Cahay
Production
companies
  • The Film (France)
  • La Parti (Belgium)
  • Tarantula (Luxembourg)
  • Studio Canal (coproduction)[1]
Distributed byMars Distribution (France)
Lumière (Belgium)[1]
Release dates
  • 18 May 2004 (2004-05-18) (Cannes)
  • 9 March 2005 (2005-03-09) (Belgium)
  • 16 March 2005 (2005-03-16) (France)
Running time
88 minutes
CountriesBelgium
France
Luxembourg
LanguageFrench

Calvaire (lit. Calvary, also known as The Ordeal) is a 2004 psychological horror film directed by Fabrice Du Welz, starring Laurent Lucas, Philippe Nahon and Jackie Berroyer. It was Fabrice Du Welz's first full-length film.[1]

Marc Stevens (Laurent Lucas) is a young traveling singer. After a concert at a nursing home a few days before Christmas, Marc begins traveling to his next destination. Marc's van breaks down in a deserted mountain region where he is taken in by Mr. Bartel (Jackie Berroyer), an innkeeper who is psychologically fragile due to his wife Gloria leaving him.

  1. ^ a b c "OST RECENT CITY AND EDGE KEMPEN MECHELEN YOUR MUNICIPALITY INTERIOR ABROAD FILES (Belgian film "Calvaire" in side section Cannes - English translation)". Gazet Van Antwerpen (in Dutch). 22 April 2004. Retrieved 29 December 2018.