It's Easier for a Camel...

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It's Easier for a Camel...
It's Easier for a Camel.jpg
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Directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Written byValeria Bruni Tedeschi
Noémie Lvovsky
Agnès de Sacy
Produced by Paulo Branco
Maurizio Antonini
Mimmo Calopresti
StarringValeria Bruni Tedeschi
Cinematography Jeanne Lapoirie
Edited byAnne Weil
Distributed byLe Petit Bureau
Release date
  • 16 April 2003 (2003-04-16)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$2.1 million
Box office$3.2 million [1]

It's Easier for a Camel... (French : Il est plus facile pour un chameau...) is a 2003 French comedy film written, directed by and starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. It was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival. [2] It won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film in 2003.

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Tedeschi won prizes for Emerging Narrative Filmmaker and Best Actress at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival. [3]

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References

  1. "Il est plus facile pour un chameau (2003) - JPBox-Office".
  2. "25th Moscow International Film Festival (2003)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 3 April 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  3. Amdur, Meredith (12 May 2003). "'Blind Shaft' tops at Tribeca Fest". Variety. Retrieved 2 January 2022.