The Man Who Cried is an Anglo-French film released in 2000, written and directed by Sally Potter.
The film stars 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. As a young adult, she moves to Paris (shortly before the beginning of World War II), and then flees to the United States wh...
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The Man Who Cried is an Anglo-French film released in 2000, written and directed by Sally Potter.
The film stars 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. As a young adult, she moves to Paris (shortly before the beginning of World War II), and then flees to the United States when the Nazis move into the French capital.
The picture is the last film of the French cinematographer Sacha Vierny.
The film revolves around Fegele Abramovich (Christina Ricci), a Russian Jew who is separated from her father as a child in 1927. He has traveled to America to seek his fortune and plans to send for Fegele and her grandmother, but the village is attacked and the grandmother perishes along with most of the members of the village. Fegele escapes with the help of two neighbors and finds herself without her compatriots on a boat...
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