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CriticCrunch has 5 David Oelhoffen titles in its catalog, ranked by quality percentile.
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Franck is a firefighter in Paris. He saves people. He lives at the station with his wife, who is about to have twins. He’s happy. During a call out to a fire, he puts himself in danger, to save his men. He’s going to have to learn to live again and accept to be the one being saved, this time.
Dir. Frédéric Tellier · With Pierre Niney, Anaïs Demoustier, Vincent Rottiers

Fed up with the hectic, senseless world he lives in, Teddy decides to settle down alone in Siberia, in the midst of winter, in a hut by the shore of Lake Baikal. After an initial period of elation in front of the splendor and magic of unspoiled nature, Teddy soon finds himself confronted with the less glossy side of things : solitude, extreme cold, the necessity to find food, danger... One night Teddy gets lost in a blizzard and would be doomed to a certain death, were it not for Aleksei, a Russian convict living hidden away in the forest nearby, who rescues him in extremis. Friendship soon blossoms between the two men...
Dir. Safy Nebbou · With Raphaël Personnaz, Evgeniy Sidikhin
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killers.
Dir. Frédéric Tellier · With Raphaël Personnaz, Nathalie Baye, Olivier Gourmet

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities.
Dir. David Oelhoffen · With Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Djemel Barek

Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay…
Dir. David Oelhoffen · With Matthias Schoenaerts, Reda Kateb, Adel Bencherif
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