55 Steps

Original Title: 55 Steps

100' | 2017 (Completed)

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Director:	Bille August
Producer:	Peter De Maegd, Tom Hameeuw
Writer:	Mark Rosin

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55 Steps is based on the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they're in a hospital.

synopsis

55 Steps is the life-affirming true story of an unexpected collusion formed during a fight for patient rights against seemingly impossible odds. When Eleanor Riese discovers that the medication she is being given at St. Mary's Psychiatric Hospital in San Francisco is damaging her physically, she hires patients' rights lawyer Collette Hughes. With the help of expert attorney Mort Cohen, the two try to defeat St. Mary's in court while the indefatigable Eleanor and Collette become best of friends - a friendship in which the colourful psychiatric patient Eleanor teaches the work-obsessed Collette a thing or two about life itself.

Credits

Director
Bille August
Producer
Peter De Maegd, Tom Hameeuw
Writer
Mark Rosin
Cast
Hilary Swank, Johan Heldenbergh, Jeffrey Tambor
Editing
Hansjörg Weißbrich
Photography
Filip Zumbrunn
Art direction
Merijn Sep
Costume
Charlotte Willems
Makeup
Birger Laube

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Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Fiction
Production share
Minority Flemish co-production
Belgium
Genre
Year of production

2017
Production status
Completed
Original title
55 Steps

Technical specs

Running time
100'
Available in
2D
Colour
Colour

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Contact

Potemkino Port

Fabriekstraat 37
2547 Lint
Belgium

T +32 476 211 250
lize@potemkino.com

www.potemkino.be

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Festivals & awards

Festivals

2017: Toronto International Film Festival (CA)

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Co-production partners

MMC Studios

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Screen Flanders

Tax shelter

BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance

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55 Steps

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