The Man Who Cried

The Man Who Cried
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySally Potter
Written bySally Potter
Produced byChristopher Sheppard
StarringChristina Ricci
Cate Blanchett
John Turturro
Johnny Depp
Harry Dean Stanton
CinematographySacha Vierny
Edited byHervé Schneid
Music byOsvaldo Golijov
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Pictures (United Kingdom, Australia and Benelux; through United International Pictures)[1]
Mars Distribution (France)[2]
Release date
  • 2 September 2000 (2000-09-02) (Venice)
Running time
100 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
France
LanguagesEnglish
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.

  1. ^ "The Man Who Cried (2000)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  2. ^ "The Man Who Cried (2000)". UniFrance. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Pushing limits? Yes". Los Angeles Times. 26 June 2005.
  4. ^ "The Man Who Cried – Box Office Data". The Numbers. Retrieved 28 July 2011.