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Pâté

Pâté

2001 30mDrama

A majestically dark story about an aristocratic family struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Amongst the bleak landscape of desolation, two young children, Otto and his sister Vera, hunt daily for food. Meanwhile at home in an abandoned ship, their delusional Mother pitifully clings onto the faded glory of their former aristocratic lives, indolently aided by her shiftless Maid. Full of opulent memories and dark ghosts, their life is a sad shadow of the past as each character copes with the grind of daily survival in their separate ways. When the sublimely malevolent Mister Griswald, the only man to survive the apocalypse, unexpectedly drops in for dinner, he sets in motion the final act - revealing the shocking secret of their survival.

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A majestically dark story about an aristocratic family struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Amongst the bleak landscape of desolation, two young children, Otto and his sister Vera, hunt daily for food. Meanwhile at home in an abandoned ship, their delusional Mother pitifully clings onto the faded glory of their former aristocratic lives, indolently aided by her shiftless Maid. Full of opulent memories and dark ghosts, their life is a sad shadow of the past as each character copes with the grind of daily survival in their separate ways. When the sublimely malevolent Mister Griswald, the only man to survive the apocalypse, unexpectedly drops in for dinner, he sets in motion the final act - revealing the shocking secret of their survival.

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Agnieszka Wojtowicz-VoslooAgnieszka Wojtowicz-VoslooDirectorEva HanWriter

Cast

Jane CulleyThe Mother
Ty ArnoldOtto
Samantha Browne-WaltersVera
Gary SwansonGary SwansonMister Griswald
Barbara PitcherThe Maid

Director

Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo

Writers

Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Eva Han

Release date

12 Jun 2001

Runtime

30m

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