Cafard

Cafard is a 2015 French-Dutch-Belgian animated war film written and directed by Jan Bultheel.^[5] The film tells the story of a boxer, Jean Mordant (based on the real-life Henri Herd, known as Constant le Marin), who joins the Belgian Expeditionary Corps which is sent to the Russian Empire during World War I in order to avenge the rape of his daughter by German soldiers in Occupied Belgium.^[6]

Cafard
Directed by	Jan Bultheel
Written by	Jan Bultheel
Music by	Hans Helewaut[1]
Production companies	Tarantula Belgique Superprod Animation[2] Tondo Films Topkapi Films[3]
Distributed by	Eurozoom
Release dates	September 23, 2015 (2015-09-23) (Belgium) December 12, 2015 (2015-12-12) (France)
Running time	92 minutes[4]
Countries	France Netherlands Belgium
Languages	French Dutch

Voice cast

Role	French dub	Dutch dub
Jean Mordant	Benoît Magimel	Wim Willaert
Victor	Jean-Hugues Anglade	Sebastien Dewaele
Jelena Dimitrieva Doctorow	Julie Gayet	Dinara Droukarova
Guido		Maarten Ketels
Édouard Coppenole		Benoit Gob

Release and reception

The film was theatrically released in Belgium on 23 September 2015, and in France on 12 December.^[3] It grossed $20,771 in Belgium,^[7] and received positive reviews from critics.^[6][8]

Accolades

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref.
Magritte Awards	6 February 2016	Best Flemish Film	Cafard	Nominated