CHIN UP !

  • Sólveig Anspach
  • Fiction
  • 1999
  • 1h48

Emma is several months’ pregnant when she is diagnosed as having breast cancer. The doctor advises her to have an abortion, the treatment being incompatible with pregnancy, he claims. Shattered by the news, Emma is on the verge
of sacrificing the child.Her companion, Simon urges her to consult another doctor, who tells her that she can undergo treatment without interrupting her pregnancy.Emma regains hope. She must not only fight for herself now, but for her child as well.

Screenplay
  • Sólveig Anspach
  • Pierre-Erwan Guillaume
Photography
  • Isabelle Razavet
Sound
  • Olivier Mauvezin
Set design
  • Catherine Keller
Costumes
  • Marie Le Garrec
Editing
  • Anne Riegel
Original score
  • Martin Wheeler
  • Olivier Manoury
Production
  • Ex Nihilo
  • Patrick Sobelman
Coproduction
  • ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP
  • R.T.B.F
Distribution Diaphana
Theatrical release 11/03/1999
International seller Mercure International

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