Taglines: Space is a prison all of its own
Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force beyond imagining, Saint Georges is a man possessed by inner demons, caught up in the battle to control the monstrous power within him.
It’s a power that will infect the other highly dangerous occupants of Dante 01, gaolors and prisoners alike, unleashing a violent rebellion that turns this terrifying, labyrinthine world upside down. In the otherworldly hell of the ship’s depths, through danger and redemption, each must journey to his very limits… each must confront his own Dragon.
Upon meeting Saint Georges, fellow inmates soon discover all is not normal with the new prisoner as he begins to display mysterious powers stemming from his alien experience. As his strange abilities begin to emerge, discontent begins to brew onboard Dante 01, as a blood thirsty power struggle starts amongst jealous prisoners. As jailors and inmates alike try to fathom Saint Georges’ god-like abilities, paranoia sets in, resulting in the ships computer being sabotaged, sending the space prison plummeting towards a fireball planet. All seems lost as the inhabitants begin to realise how secluded they are and ‘in deep space, there is no rescue’.
Dante 01 is a 2008 science fiction film by French director Marc Caro and starring Lambert Wilson, Linh Dan Pham, Dominique Pinon, François Levantal, François Hadji-Lazaro, Gérald Laroche, Dominique Bettenfeld, Yann Collette and Simona Maicanescu.
Dante 01 (2009)
Directed by: Marc Caro
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Linh Dan Pham, Dominique Pinon, François Levantal, François Hadji-Lazaro, Gérald Laroche, Dominique Bettenfeld, Yann Collette, Simona Maicanescu
Screenplay by: Pierre Bordage, Marc Caro
Production Design byı Bertrand Seitz
Cinematography by: Jean Poisson
Film Editing by: Linda Attab, Sebastian Prangere
Costume Design by: Chattoune
Music by: Raphael Elig, Eric Wenger
MPAA Rating: R for violence, some disturbing images, language and brief nudity.
Distributed by: The Weinstein Company
Release Date: February 3, 2009
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