Le Havre poster

Le Havre

7.0(502)20111h 34m4

In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.

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Status
Released
Budget
$3.9M
Box office
$4.2M
Language
French
  • refugee
  • grocer
  • poverty
  • kindness
  • dog
  • policeman
  • shoe shiner
  • northern france
  • vietnamese
  • grocery store
  • cherry
  • port

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Behind the camera

Produced in

Finland, France, Germany

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical21 Oct 2011
  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical3 Nov 2011
  • DenmarkDK

    • TheatricalA15 Mar 2012
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalS9 Sept 2011
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereCannes Film Festival17 May 2011
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical08 Sept 2011
  • GreeceGR

    • TheatricalΚ5 Jan 2012
  • IrelandIE

    • Digital / OTTPG6 Apr 2012
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical25 Nov 2011
  • JapanJP

    • Digital / OTTG28 Apr 2012
  • NorwayNO

    • Theatrical128 Sept 2011
  • RussiaRU

    • Theatrical16+21 Jun 2012

Frequently asked questions

Le Havre was released on 8 September 2011.

Audience reviews

3
  • A

    Andres Gomez

    4/5/2014

    6/10

    Simple story, well and gently told in Kaurismäki's characteristic style.

  • C

    CRCulver

    9/1/2018

    5/10

    In the 2011 production LE HAVRE, the Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki steps away from his usual Helsinki setting for the first in what will be a trilogy of films in Western European port cities. Always rooting for the underdogs, Kaurismäki this time concentrates not just on the disenfranchised urban lower class, but on a socioeconomic strata arguably lower than them: illegal immigrants. Middle-aged shoeshiner Marcel (An…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    10/16/2024

    7/10

    When a dockworker hears some strange noises emanating from a box recently arrived from Gabon, he's maybe not so surprised to discover that it's cargo is human - and bound for London. Detained by the immigration officials, the young and nimble "Idrissa" (Blondin Miguel) manages to evade his captors and whilst in flight encounters the slightly down-at-heel "Marcel" (André Wilms). The older man takes pity on this nervou…

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