

Le Havre
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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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
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Le Havre was released on 8 September 2011.
Audience reviews
3- A6/10
Andres Gomez
4/5/2014
Simple story, well and gently told in Kaurismäki's characteristic style.
- C5/10
CRCulver
9/1/2018
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…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
10/16/2024
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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