Amnesia – Das James Brighton Geheimnis
2005Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma (French: Amnésie, l'énigme James Brighton) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Denis Langlois and released in 2005.[1] The film dramatizes the true story of "James Brighton", a gay "mystery man" suffering from dissociative amnesia who was found naked behind a dumpster in Montreal in 1998,[2] and was eventually confirmed as Matthew Honeycutt, a young heterosexual man from La Follette, Tennessee who was attempting to escape from his fundamentalist Christian family.[3]
The film stars Dusan Dukic as Brighton/Honeycutt; Karyne Lemieux as Sylvie, a young woman who engages in trying to help solve the mystery of Brighton's identity; Louise Laprade as psychiatrist Geneviève Marler; and Norman Helms as Félix, a man who takes Brighton in as a house guest before his real identity is confirmed.[4]
The film premiered on September 26, 2005 at Montreal's Cinema Quartier Latin, as a fundraising benefit gala for Gay Line/Gai Écoute, the city's helpline for LGBT people.[1]
The film was cowinner with Tori Foster's documentary film 533 Statements of the award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2006 Inside Out Film and Video Festival.[5]
Kinostart: | 2005 | ||||||||||
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Genre: | Filmdrama, LGBT-Film | ||||||||||
Herstellungsland: | Kanada | ||||||||||
Originalsprache: | Französisch, Englisch | ||||||||||
Farbe: | Farbe | ||||||||||
IMDB: | 650 | ||||||||||
Offizielle Webseite: | www.amnesielefilm.com |
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