The Stone Council

Story

Synopsis

In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation directed by Sybille Weber. Years later, a weird mark appears on the boy's chest and Diane and Liu share their dreadful nightmares. Diane is assigned for a three-day job in Germany and she leaves Liu with her friend Sybille. However, while going to the airport, Diane finds Liu hidden in the backseat and startles with an eagle flying toward the windshield, crashing her car. Liu falls into a coma and his digital recorder records the boy speaking in an unknown dialect. When Diane searches the translation and the origins of Liu, she is surrounded by mysterious murders. She discovers that the dialect is from the mystic Mongolian Tseven tribe and that Liu is a powerful Observer; further, he is in danger, threatened by sorcerers that need the boy for their Council of the Stone..

Director

Guillaume Nicloux

Writers

Guillaume Nicloux, Jean-Christophe Grangé, Stéphane Cabel

Language

French

Country

Germany, France, Italy

Release date

15 November 2006

Budget

$22,000,000

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Monica Bellucci

  Laura Siprien

• 

  Catherine Deneuve

  Sybille Weber

• 

  Moritz Bleibtreu

  Serguei Makov

• 

  Sami Bouajila

  Lucas

• 

  Elsa Zylberstein

  Clarisse

• Nicolas Thau

  Liu-San

• 

  Lorenzo Balducci

  Inspecteur Frank Neves

• 

  Nicolas Jouhet

  Inspecteur Langlois

• 

  Peter Bonke

  Docteur Vonkel

• Tubtchine Bayaertu

  Barsak Thalik

• 

  Laurent Grévill

  Daguerre

• 

  Jerzy Rogulski

  Professeur Bruner