The Translators
The Translators (French: Les Traducteurs) is a 2019 French mystery thriller film directed by Régis Roinsard.[1][2]
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| Directed by | Régis Roinsard |
| Starring | Lambert Wilson Alex Lawther |
| Cinematography | Guillaume Schiffman |
| Music by | Jun Miyake |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Plot
Dedalus is a best-seller trilogy whose last book is eagerly awaited. Nine translators are confined in a bunker, beneath a French manor, to work on it. Despite the secrecy, the first pages are leaked on the web.
Cast
- Lambert Wilson: Éric Angstrom, the publisher
- Alex Lawther: Alex Goodman, the English translator
- Olga Kurylenko: Katerina Anisinova, the Russian translator
- Riccardo Scamarcio: Dario Farelli, the Italian translator
- Sidse Babett Knudsen: Helene Tuxen, the Danish translator
- Eduardo Noriega: Javier Casal, the Spanish translator
- Anna Maria Sturm: Ingrid Korbel, the German translator
- Frédéric Chau: Chen Yao, the Chinese translator
- Maria Leite: Telma Alves, the Portuguese translator
- Manolis Mavromatakis: Konstantinos Kedrinos, the Greek translator
- Sara Giraudeau: Rose-Marie Houeix, Éric Angstrom's assistant
- Patrick Bauchau: Georges Fontaine, the bookseller
- Sergueï Nesterenko: Marat
- Ilya Nikitenko: Ivan
- Miglen Mirtchev: Sergei
- Michel Bompoil: Robert Monteil
- Nicolas Koretzky: Philippe Arthur
- Vinciane Millereau: Carole Bauer
- Jade Phan-Gia: Lucie Smadja
- Marc Arnaud: Paul Sierra
- Irina Muluile: Inspector Camara
- Stéphane Pézerat: Inspector Pulaski
- Kester Lovelace: British inspector
- Jacob Hauberg Lohmann: Helene Tuxen's husband
- Alasdair Noble: young Alex Goodman
- Suzana Joaquim Mausdlay: Lisbon Airport attendant
Trivia
This movie was inspired by the unique translation operation of Dan Brown's Inferno in 2013, which was conceived to prevent leaking and "guarantee the simultaneous publication of the novel worldwide".[3] The translators were divided into two groups and worked from Milan and London respectively. In 2017, the same operation was repeated for the translation of Origin, the fifth book in the Robert Langdon series, with 26 translators working together in Barcelona.
References
- "The Translators". Les Arcs Film Festival. 6 November 2018. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
- Mintzer, Jordan (30 January 2020). "'The Translators' ('Les Traducteurs'): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
- Ayuso, Julia Webster (2020-04-30). "Literary lockdown: how translating a Dan Brown novel made for a thriller plot". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-01-16.