USA: JOHNNY DEPP AND CHRISTINA RICCI TALK ABOUT THEIR LATEST FILM - SET IN SECOND WORLD WAR PARIS - " THE MAN WHO CRIED"

Record ID: 391341

  • Title: USA: JOHNNY DEPP AND CHRISTINA RICCI TALK ABOUT THEIR LATEST FILM - SET IN SECOND WORLD WAR PARIS - " THE MAN WHO CRIED"
  • Date: 24th May 2001
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES T (MAY 21) (REUTERS -- ACCESS ALL) SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHRISTINA RICCI SAYING: "If someone today, if a character today was going through anything like what this character goes through there would be a lot more, kind of 'angsty' emotion, a lot of cynicism and sarcasm. These people at this time did not have the luxury of complain
  • Embargoed: 8th June 2001 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVAAEGZ5ZNUUDM9X01VQOHXYUKNZ
  • Story Text: Reuniting once again, Christina Ricci and Johnny Depp find love as a Russian Jew and Gypsy horseman in pre-war Paris. "The Man Who Cried" opens to limited release on Friday (May 23).
    Ricci, orphaned while fleeing Russia as a young Jewish girl, arrives in England where she is forbidden to speak Yiddish, but learns to sing. Ten years later she goes to Paris where she becomes a chorus girl and befriends an ambitious blonde Russian dancer, Oscar nominated actress Cate Blanchett.
    She starts to save, hoping to earn enough money to pay for passage to America. Together Ricci and Blanchett find jobs in a new opera company where Ricci falls in love with gypsy horse-handler, Johnny Depp. Blanchett falls for John Turturro, an arrogant Italian opera singer.
    When Germany invades Paris Turturro, with Blancett at his side, immediately collaborates with the Nazis, while Ricci joins Depp and his band of gypsy musicians. With the Nazis plans to round up the Jews and the Gypsies, Ricci decides to stay and fight but Depp encourages her to leave.
    Ricci, broken hearted leaves Paris and continues the search for her father, which finally leads her to Hollywood.
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