THE CYCLOTRON

Olivier Asselin

Canada | V.O. French/English/German | ST French | 2016 | 95 min | DCP | colour and B & W | Fiction

At the end of the Second World War, Simone, a spy working for the Allies is entrusted with the mission to find and execute Emil, a scrupulous Berlin scientist who discovered before the Americans the way to build an atomic bomb, and is fleeing with his secret. Simone finds him on a night train speeding towards Switzerland. German soldiers, led by König, a German scientist, who want to arrest Emil and make him talk before he leaves the country, are also chasing him. The chase gets complicated when memories of love get intertwined and when it is discovered that there is somewhere on the train, a prototype of the bomb. GPHQ

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Director Olivier Asselin
Music Patrice Dubuc, Gaëtan Gravel
Cinematographer Mathieu Laverdière
Screenplay Olivier Asselin, Lucille Fluet
Cast Paul Ahmarani, Lucille Fluet, Mark-Antony Krupa, Manuel Sinor, Olivier Barrette
Production LES FILMS CAMERA OSCURA
Distribution FUNFILM DISTRIBUTION INC

Biographie

Olivier Asselin

Olivier Asselin has written and directed several feature films, including La liberté d’une statue, Le siège de l’âme, Un capitalisme sentimental and Le Cyclotron, all historical films with a speculative dimension that revisit the history of science and technology of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is currently developing Necropolis, a life-size video game in augmented reality. He teaches contemporary art, expanded cinema and media arts at the Art History Department and Film Studies from the University of Montreal.