Cessez-le-feu Filming Locations
Where was Cessez-le-feu filmed? Cessez-le-feu was filmed in 30 locations across France, Burkina Faso and Senegal in the following places:
Cessez-le-feu Filming Locations
Paris, France's capital, is a major European city and a global center for art, fashion, gastronomy and culture. Its 19th-century cityscape is crisscrossed by wide boulevards and the River Seine. Beyond such landmarks as the Eiffel Tower and the 12th-century, Gothic Notre-Dame cathedral, the city is known for its cafe culture and designer boutiques along the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa. It covers an area of 274,223 km², bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. As of 2021, the country had an estimated population of 20,321,378.
Pays de la Loire is a region in western France with a coastline on the Bay of Biscay, and encompasses part of the Loire Valley, famed for its vineyards. The valley’s grand châteaux include the Château de Saumur, a hilltop medieval fort that contains a city museum, and the 7-story Château de Brissac, featuring period decor. Nantes, the regional capital, is home to the moated Château des Ducs de Bretagne, now a museum.
Poitou-Charentes, now part of Nouvelle Aquitaine, is a former region on the French Atlantic coast with Roman, Renaissance and medieval history. In the coastal city of La Rochelle, the 14th-century St-Nicolas Tower overlooks Vieux Port, the old harbor. Île de Ré and Île d'Oléron are 2 low-lying islands known for oysters and fishing villages. Inland is Poitiers, the region's hilltop capital dating to Roman times.
Dori is a town in northeastern Burkina Faso, near the border of Niger. It is located at around 14.03°N 0.03°W. It is the capital of Sahel Region and has a population of 46,512. The main ethnic group is the Fula but Tuaregs and Songhai are often present. It is a town known for its herders and popular livestock markets.
Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, commonly referred to as Aubeterre, is a commune in the Charente department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France.
Javerlhac-et-la-Chapelle-Saint-Robert is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Javerlhac is in the Parc naturel régional Périgord Limousin.
Nantes, a city on the Loire River in the Upper Brittany region of western France, has a long history as a port and industrial center. It's home to the restored, medieval Château des Ducs de Bretagne, where the Dukes of Brittany once lived. The castle is now a local history museum with multimedia exhibits, as well as a walkway atop its fortified ramparts.
Cessez-le-feu (2016)
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the company of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War. From village to village, Georges uses Diofo's talents as a griot to recruit the villagers as labour for plantations in Ghana. But this adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Nantes where his brother Marcel, a war invalid, lives with their mother's. After the war in Europe, life went on without him. Georges will desperately try to find his place, with the help of Helene, a sign language teacher with whom he will have a tumultuous relationship, and his family, that he selfishly left behind. He will finally attempt to heal their wounds...