Movie

Clandestins

★ 6.9(7)19971h 38m

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Director: Denis Chouinard, Nicolas Wadimoff
Release date: 1997-09-05
Runtime: 1h 38m
Language: French
Status: Released
Country: Belgium
Studio: Les Productions du Regard

About Clandestins

Clandestins is a 1997 movie in the Drama genre, directed by Denis Chouinard and Nicolas Wadimoff, starring Ovidiu Balan, Anton Kouznetsov and Moussa Maaskri. It has a runtime of 1 hour 38 minutes. It holds an average rating of 6.9/10 from 7 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Clandestins in Mexico — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

A dark and claustrophobic film, this brutal, tragic, gut-wrenching drama is set almost totally within the confines of a ship's cargo container that is only 25 square meters in size. It is the grim story of six ill-fated refugees trying to get to Canada from a port in France. The police are in hot pursuit when the septet of strangers are stowed away in the huge metal box. The refugees -- two men, two women and two children -- are of various backgrounds including Gypsy, Russian and Arab. The first of many problems occurs when a mother and daughter arrive with no food (they lost it during a chase). The one Russian refugee, Roman, declares that they should not be allowed to board the ship, but the other three refugees allow them in. Their ordeal begins when the ship breaks down in Liverpool.