VICTOR YOUNG PEREZ
synopsis
Victor "Young" Perez , tells the astonishing, harrowing and incredible moving story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. Perez started training as a boxer at age 14 along with his older brother Benjamin "Kid" Perez Perez rose to great fame via the help and guidance of Leon Bellier and had a brief relationship with French-Italian actress Mireille Balin. The 5'1", 110-pound Perez won the International Boxing Union's version of the World Flyweight crown with a 2nd-round knockout of American champion Frankie Genaro, ergo becoming the youngest world champion in boxing history. He was arrested in Paris on September 21, 1943 and detained in the Drancy internment camp France, before being transported to Auschwitz where he was assigned to the Monowitz to serve as a slave laborer.
international title: | Victor Young Perez |
original title: | Victor Young Perez |
country: | France, Israel |
sales agent: | Picture Tree International |
year: | 2013 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Jacques Ouaniche |
film run: | 110' |
release date: | FR 20/11/2013 |
screenplay: | Jacques Ouaniche, Yoni Darmon |
cast: | Brahim Asloum, Steve Suissa, Isabella Orsini, Patrick Bouchitey, Davy Sardou, Bruce Payne |
cinematography by: | Pierre-Yves Bastard |
film editing: | Emmanuelle Mimran |
art director: | Mintcheva Boriana, Ariel Glazer, Laure Balzan-Sorin |
costumes designer: | Edith Vesperini |
music: | Stéphane Rollot, Didier Lockwood |
producer: | Nelly Kafsky, Jacques Ouaniche |
co-producer: | James Daly, Daniel Goudineau |
production: | Mazel Productions, Noé Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Transfax Film Productions |
backing: | Greenhouse Media Investment Ltd. |
distributor: | Océan Films |