April and the Extraordinary World

(2015)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 365 votes

Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Year: 2015

Runtime: 90 мин

Country: France, Canada

Director: Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci

Cast: Марион Котийяр, Philippe Katerine, Жан Рошфор, Оливье Гурме, Marc-André Grondin, Bouli Lanners, Anne Coesens, Macha Grenon, Бенуа Бриер, Gérard Dessalles

Plot

It's 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

In 1941, the world is radically different from the one we know from history books. Geopolitics has developed strangely: Napoleon V rules France and, for the last 70 years, scholars have been mysteriously disappearing, depriving mankind of their inventions. Without radio, television, electricity, aviation, and the combustion engine, the world is mired in outdated technology, dozing in the previous century's knowhow dominated by coal and steam. In this bizarre universe, Avril (Marion Cotillard), a teenage girl, Darwin (Philippe Katerine), her talking cat, Pops (Jean Rochefort), her grandfather, and Julius (Marc-André Grondin), a young scoundrel and police informer, go off in search of Avril's parents, two of the missing scientists. The quartet will face many dangers and mysteries in this strange new Rigged World.