Container of (work): Meurtre à Pacot (Motion picture) Container of (work): Assistance mortelle (Motion picture) Container of (expression): Assistance mortelle (Motion picture). English. Container of (expression): Assistance mortelle (Motion picture). German. Container of (expression): Assistance mortelle (Motion picture). Spanish.
Notes:
Mord in Pacot: Alex Descas, Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin, Thibault Vinçon, Lovely Kermonde Fifi, Albert Moleon. Narrators, Natalie Paul, Hébert Peck. Extras on Mord in Pacot disc: Berlinale 2015 - Press conference (video, 42 min., German and English soundtracks); trailer and booklet.
Contents:
(2013, 100 min.). Assistance mortelle Mord in Pacot = Murder in Pacot / Velvet Film, ARTE France, RTBF present ; a film by Raoul Peck ; produced by Rémi Grellety, Hébert Peck, Raoul Peck ; written, produced & directed by Raoul Peck (130 min. ; 2014) -- Disc 2 : Tödliche Hilfe = Fatal assistance = Assistance mortelle Velvet Film, ARTE France, RTBF present ; a film by Raoul Peck ; produced by Rémi Grellety, Hébert Peck, Raoul Peck ; written, produced & directed by Raoul Peck (2013, 100 min.).
Summary:
Mord in Pacot: Shortly after the 2010 Haitian earhquake, a rich couple from the Pacot neighborhood in Port-au-Prince rent out the last standing room of their mansion to Alex, a foreign aid worker. He becomes enamored with a 17 year-old local beauty, who is involved in some unsavory business. Tödliche Hilfe: A documentary that looks at the situation after the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010 and the fundamental questions of citizenship, responsibility, and justice that have challenged Haitian society ever since it emerged from decades of dictatorship.
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