The Fall (2006)

Director:

Tarsem Singh

Writers (WGA):

Dan Gilroy (screenplay) and
Nico Soultanakis (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

30 May 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy

Tagline:

A Little Blessing In Disguise.

Plot:

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman (Pace) begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm (Untaru), a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances. |

Plot Keywords:

Silent Movie | Suicide | World Wide | Magic | Stuntman

Awards:

2 wins

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Cast

Catinca Untaru	...	Alexandria
Justine Waddell	...	Nurse Evelyn / Sister Evelyn
Lee Pace	...	Roy Walker
Kim Uylenbroek	...	Doctor / Alexander the Great
Aiden Lithgow	...	Alexander's Messenger
Sean Gilder	...	Walt Purdy
Ronald France	...	Otto
Andrew Roussouw	...	Mr. Sabatini
Michael Huff	...	Dr. Whitaker
Grant Swanby	...	Father Augustine
Emil Hostina	...	Alexandria's Father / Bandit
Robin Smith	...	Luigi / One Legged Actor
Jeetu Verma	...	Indian / Orange Picker
Leo Bill	...	Darwin / Orderly
Marcus Wesley	...	Otta Benga / Ice Delivery Man
Ayesha Verman	...	Indian's Bride
Julian Bleach	...	Mystic / Orange Picker
Ketut Rina	...	Chief Mystic
Camilla Waldman	...	Crying Woman
Elvira Deatcu	...	Alexandria's Mother
Emma Johnson	...	Alexandria's Sister
Daniel Caltagirone	...	Sinclair / Governor Odious
Nico Soultanakis	...	Horace
Jon Kamen	...	Morty
Karen Haacke	...	Alice
Emma Maria Landberg	...	Flicker Film Woman
Miguel Hernández	...	Cowboy 1
Oscar Moreno	...	Cowboy 2
David Parra	...	Cowboy 3
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Stephen Hughes	...	Hospital Patient (uncredited)

Directed by
Tarsem Singh		(as Tarsem)

Writing credits (WGA)
Dan Gilroy		(screenplay) and
Nico Soultanakis		(screenplay) &
Tarsem Singh		(screenplay)
Valeri Petrov		(1981 screenplay Yo Ho Ho) (as Valery Petrov)

Produced by
Lionel Kopp	....	co-producer
Ray Leakey	....	associate producer
Laurette Marais	....	line producer
Ajit Singh	....	executive producer
Tarsem Singh	....	producer
Nico Soultanakis	....	co-producer
Tommy Turtle	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Krishna Levy

Cinematography by
Colin Watkinson

Film Editing by
Robert Duffy

Casting by
Daniel Hubbard
Christa Shamberger

Production Design by
Ged Clarke

Art Direction by
Lisa Hart

Set Decoration by
Riccardo Pugliese
Cynthia Sleiter

Costume Design by
Eiko Ishioka

Makeup Department
Leon von Solms	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Asen Kanchev	....	music production manager
Ray Leakey	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Lee Grumett	....	first assistant director: second unit India
Josh Robertson	....	first assistant director
Hayley Ross	....	third assistant director
Sameer Sadhwani	....	second assistant director
Sebastian Sanchez	....	second unit director: Argentina
Kapil Sharma	....	first assistant director: India

Art Department
Nico Mead	....	buyer
Letizia Santucci	....	assistant set decorator
Sonal Sawant	....	art director: India

Sound Department
Philippe Amouroux	....	foley recordist
Jeremy Balko	....	adr mixer
Antoine Baudouin	....	dialogue adr assistant
Nicolas Becker	....	foley artist
Nicolas Becker	....	sound effects recordist
Nicolas Bourgeois	....	assistant sound editor
Katia Boutin	....	assistant sound re-recording mixer
Vladislav Boyadjiev	....	ProTools operator
Steve Browell	....	assistant adr editor
Paul Conway	....	supervising adr editor
Nicolas Dambroise	....	dialogue editor
Vincent Guillon	....	sound editor
Gérard Hardy	....	sound editor
Dean Humphreys	....	sound re-recording mixer
Alexis Jung	....	assistant sound effects recordist
Mark Lafbery	....	adr mixer
Mike Westgate	....	production sound mixer: Fiji

Special Effects by
Adam Howarth	....	special effects supervisor
Christoph Lauenstein	....	animation sequence
Wolfgang Lauenstein	....	animation sequence
Anton Voster	....	special effects coordinator
Robert Trenton	....	special effects crew (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Cyrille Bonjean	....	digital compositor
Emmanuelle Carlier	....	visual effects coordinator
Alain Carsoux	....	visual effects supervisor
Nicolas Daniel	....	HD coordinator: DUBOI
Thierry Delobel	....	visual effects coordinator
Corentin De Saedeleer	....	digital compositor
Séverine De Wever	....	visual effects coordinator
François Dupuy	....	digital intermediate technical director
Xavier Fourmond	....	digital compositor
Jerome Fournier	....	senior matte painter
Rip Hampton O'Neil	....	technical director: Duboicolor
Adam Howarth	....	model unit supervisor
Arcier Hugo	....	digital artist
Abdel Ali Kassou	....	I/O manager
Abdel Ali Kassou	....	imaging manager
Emmanuel Le Courbe	....	digital compositor
Didier le Fouest	....	digital colorist
Christophe Legendre	....	color grader
Guillaume Le Gouez	....	digital compositor
Cecile Peltier	....	digital compositor
Benoit Philippon	....	visual effects
Joel Pinto	....	digital compositor
Aurore Rousset	....	animator
Rossi Sébastien	....	visual effects
Christian Tomikowski	....	digital compositor
Georges Tornero	....	digital compositor
Daniel Trujillo	....	digital compositor
Edouard Valton	....	visual effects producer
Grant White	....	digital effects artist
Guillaume Carniato	....	compositor: opening titles, Duboi (uncredited)

Stunts
Dermot Brogan	....	stunt performer
Francois Grobbelaar	....	stunt performer
Francois Grobbelaar	....	stunt rigger
Adam Horton	....	stunt performer
Adam Horton	....	stunt rigger
John Smith	....	stunt double

Camera and Electrical Department
Hernán Bouza	....	director of photography: second unit
Simon Christidis	....	underwater cinematographer
Richie Donnelly	....	assistant camera
Stefano Marino	....	gaffer: Italy
Michael McDermott	....	gaffer
Keith Saayman	....	remote camera technician
Sanjay Sami	....	key grip

Casting Department
Abigail Barbier	....	adr voice casting
Louis Elman	....	adr voice casting
Kelly Valentine Hendry	....	casting associate
Andreea Tanasescu	....	casting: Romania

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Simon Brindle	....	costume props supervisor
Nicky Jones	....	costume props
Nicky Jones	....	costumes
Mark Miller	....	costume props assistant
Urmilla Lal Motwani	....	wardrobe supervisor
Conor O'Sullivan	....	costume sculptor
Nicola Rapley	....	assistant costume designer

Editorial Department
Aurélie Bensoussan	....	assistant editor
Jimmy Christophe	....	color timer
Thibaut Damade	....	assistant editor
Catherine Le Mignant-Labye	....	sub editor
Julien Perrin	....	assistant editor
Mark Wright	....	negative cutter

Music Department
Edouard Dubois	....	music consultant

Transportation Department
Florian Stiege	....	transportation manager

Other crew
Paresh Behera	....	second assistant accountant
Morag Cameron	....	script supervisor
Prasanna R. Coondapur	....	production accounting manager
Christopher Coote	....	production assistant
Tom Fair	....	assistant production coordinator
Tom Fair	....	production runner
Eddy Pearce	....	location scout
Donovan Roberts-Baxter	....	production secretary
Alida Rubens	....	production accountant
Daityari Sa	....	chief production accountant
Adriaan van Zyl	....	accommodation coordinator: South Africa
Poonam Wahi	....	production coordinator
Jean-Marie Webb	....	first assistant accountant

Production Companies

• Absolute Entertainment (II)
• Deep Films
• Googly Films
• Kas Movie Maker
• M.I.A. Features
• Radical Media
• Tree Top Films Inc.

Distributors

• Paradise Group (2008) (Russia) (all media)
• Paradiso Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Roadside Attractions (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• Summit Entertainment (2007) (worldwide) (theatrical) (international sales)

Special Effects

• Duboi
• Duboicolor

Other Companies

• Cutting Edge  negative cutting
• Remote Camera Systems  remote camera systems
• SIF309 Film & Music Productions  film score recording
• Summit Entertainment  international sales

Runtime:

117 min

Country:

India | UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Netherlands:12 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Agra Fort, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Company:

Absolute Entertainment (II)

Trivia:

A miscommunication between the casting agent and Catinca Untaru led her to believe that Lee Pace was a real-life paraplegic. Director Tarsem Singh found that this brought an added level of believability to their dialogue, so he decided to keep almost the entire cast and crew under the same impression. Singh had to speak to the actor playing Alexandria's father and explain that his role was smaller than it appeared, since the script implied that he played the role of the bandit (actually played by Pace) in the fantasy scenes. Apparently it was hard to keep up the lie - a makeup artist walked into a room to find Pace standing and almost passed out from shock.

Quotes:

Roy Walker: Next was the English naturalist: Charles Darwin. He loved all living things. Creatures, plants...everything alive.

Movie Connections:

Remake of Yo ho ho (1981)

Remarkable

If you have not seen, or in fact, heard, of this movie, let me be the first to tell you about it.

This was and is the sort of experience that first enraptured and astounded me as regards to the movies. A story told in such a way as to become a part of your awareness, a gentle reminder of the fantastic, mythical and magical components of what is best in humanity whilst not forgetting what it means to be human.

Breathtaking does not even begin to describe the cinematography. The colors, the framing, costumes, lighting, and the backdrops are gorgeous; like something out of a dream. If this was just a visually moving film, that would be enough but there is so much more.

Tarsem Singh's direction is possessed. He manages to capture a kaleidoscope of emotion as diverse and generous as the tones and colors that deliver this movable feast for the eyes. His motley casting of relatively unknown actors is inspiring and refreshing.

The acting is extraordinary. Both poignant and comical, this journey of heartbreak and revenge, of discovery and friendship is conveyed with joy, witticism, curiosity and a vulnerability that is so rare in life, never mind in movies, it left me humbled. Especially the young Romanian girl, Catinca Untaru, who, not only made her big screen debut in this movie but is the heart and soul of the film in a breakthrough performance that I am sure will garner rave reviews.

It is my sincerest hope that you find this movie as emotive, tender and touching as I.