Chicken with Plums
Summary: Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: PG-13
Production: Celluloid Dreams, The Manipulators, uFilm, Celluloid Dreams, Studio 37, Le Pacte, Lorette Production, Film(s), Arte France Cinรฉma, ZDF/Arte, Cinรฉmage 5, uFund, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Deutscher Filmfรถrderfonds (DFFF), Canal+, CinรฉCinรฉma, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fรฉdรฉral Belge, Umedia
Movie budget: $ 12,000,000
Domestic: $ 253,874
International: $ 3,012,067
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1950sangel of deathanimal in titleanimated creditsanimated sequencebased on comicbased on franco belgian comic bookbickering couplebroken heartbrother brother relationshipbuscigarette smokingcinemacontemplating deathdeath of motherdysfunctional couplef ratedfather disapproves of suitorfirst person narrationflashbackfood in titlefruit in titlefuneralimpossible loveiranlovelove at first sightmusiciannonlinear timelineopiumpart animatedprayerpuppet showreference to socratesreference to sophia lorenreference to the phantom of the operashiraz iransmoking in bedsnowsocratesstradivariussuicidal thoughtssuicidetehran iranthree word titletimeframe 1950stitle co directed by femaletitle co written by femaletitle spoken by charactertitle spoken by narratorviolinviolinistvoice overwanting to diewedding proposalyear 1958
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