A ghost story with no ghost — just the wreckage of exile and borrowed names.
Virgil Ioan, a Romanian journalist, comes to Paris to find out what happened to Constantin Dolinescu, a renowned dissident writer, who disappeared after arriving in France in 1987.
Writing
Adapted from Peeters' own graphic novel — dense, layered, unforgiving.
Acting
Pierre Arditi's Ludovic: charm as weapon, warmth as trap.
Director
Benoît Peeters
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made in 2000 but obsessed with 1987 — the film mirrors how Eastern European intellectuals vanished into Western indifference post-Cold War.
Director Benoît Peeters is better known as Chris Marker's biographer and a comics theorist; this remains his only feature, practically buried.
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