The Man Who Cried | |
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Directed by | Sally Potter |
Written by | Sally Potter |
Produced by | Christopher Sheppard |
Starring | Christina Ricci Cate Blanchett John Turturro Johnny Depp Harry Dean Stanton |
Cinematography | Sacha Vierny |
Edited by | Hervé Schneid |
Music by | Osvaldo Golijov |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures (United Kingdom, Australia and Benelux; through United International Pictures)[1] Mars Distribution (France)[2] |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Countries | United Kingdom France |
Languages | English Yiddish Russian French Italian Romani Romanian |
Budget | $20 million[3] |
Box office | $1.8 million[4] |
The Man Who Cried is a 2000 drama film written and directed by Sally Potter, and starring Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, Harry Dean Stanton and John Turturro. The film tells the story of a young Jewish girl who, after being separated from her father in Soviet Russia, grows up in England and moves to Paris as a young adult, shortly before the beginning of World War II. It is the last film worked on by the French cinematographer Sacha Vierny.