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The Fifth Element (1997) [PG-13]

Release Date:
May 2, 1997

Original Title:
Le Cinquième Élément

Alternate Titles:
El cinquè element
El quinto elemento
Le 5ème élément
Le cinquième élément
The 5th Element
The Fifth Element: Remastered
Հինգերորդ էլեմենտը
第五元素
제 5 원소
제 5원소
제5원소

Genres:
Action | Adventure | Science Fiction

Production Companies:
Gaumont

Production Countries:
France

Ratings / Certifications:
AR: PG  AU: PG  BE: AL  BR: 12|L|14  CH: 16  CZ: 12+  DE: 12  DK: 11  ES: 7  FI: K-12  FR: TP  GB: PG|12  GR: 13  IE: 12  IT: T  KR: 15  LU: A  MX: B  NL: 6  NO: 12  PT: M/12  RU: 16+  SE: 11|15  UA: PG-13  US: PG-13 

Runtime: 126

There is no future without it.

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In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

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Production

3D Coordinator:
Jean-Paul Rovela

ADR Editor:
Victoria Sampson

ADR Mixer:
Charleen Richards-Steeves

ADR Voice Casting:
Mickie McGowan

Additional Music:
Cliff Martinez
Mark Mangini

Animation Supervisor:
Daniel Robichaud

Armorer:
Simon Atherton

Art Department Coordinator:
Katie Gabriel

Art Direction:
Ira Gilford
Ron Gress
Michael Lamont
Jim Morahan
Kevin Phipps

Assistant Accountant:
Emma Bendell
Jean Simmons
Lara Sargent
Alistair Thompson

Assistant Art Director:
Paul Kirby
Frederic Evard
Gary Tomkins

Assistant Camera:
Sophie Bosquet

Assistant Costume Designer:
Graham Churchyard

Assistant Director:
Jamie Christopher
Franck Lebreton
Didier Kwak
Camille Lipmann
Aimée Peyronnet

Assistant Editor:
Florrie Laurence
Paul Parsons
Bradley Souber

Assistant Set Decoration:
Nathalie Buck

Associate Producer:
John A. Amicarella

Best Boy Electric:
Scott Graves
Kevin Edland

Best Boy Grip:
James G. Moriarty

Boom Operator:
Jean-Marie Blondel

Camera Operator:
Jean-Paul Meurisse

Camera Trainee:
Sarah Bartles-Smith

Carpenter:
Dominic Ackland-Snow
Jamie White

Casting:
Lucinda Syson
Francine Maisler

Casting Assistant:
Orla Maxwell

Catering:
Monsieur Figuras

Choreographer:
Mia Frye

Clapper Loader:
James Bloom

Co-Producer:
Iain Smith

Color Grading:
Margo Bowie

Color Timer:
Bob Putynkowski

Compositing Supervisor:
Bryan Grill

Concept Artist:
Andrew Eio
Christian Scheurer

Conceptual Design:
Jean Giraud
Jean-Claude Mézières
Sylvain Despretz
Patrice Garcia
Sean Hargreaves
Michel Gibrat
Kamel Tazit
Hélène Giraud
Jacques Rey
Humbert Chabuel
Pierre-Alain Chartier

Conductor:
Éric Serra

Construction Buyer:
Jack Dyer

Construction Coordinator:
Ray Barrett

Construction Foreman:
Richard Guille

Contact Lens Technician:
Jemma Scott-Knox-Gore

Controller:
Carolyn Hall

Costume Assistant:
Josie Pledge

Costume Design:
Jean-Paul Gaultier

Costume Supervisor:
Janet Tebrooke

Creature Design:
Nick Dudman

Digital Compositor:
John E. Sasaki

Digital Compositors:
Gray Marshall

Digital Effects Producer:
Tamara Watts Kent

Digital Effects Supervisor:
Karen E. Goulekas

Director:
Luc Besson

Director of Photography:
Thierry Arbogast
Nick Tebbet

Draughtsman:
Camille M. Bratkowski
Patricia Johnson
Jon Billington
Peter Francis
Stephen Morahan
David Wood
Sue Whitaker

Dressing Prop:
Jamie Wilkinson

Editor:
Sylvie Landra

Electrician:
Cindy Lagerstrom
Chris Lewis
Brian McEachen
David O'Neil
Brian Tilden
Don Tomich
Douglas L. Stratton

Executive Visual Effects Producer:
Andrew Millstein

First Assistant Camera:
Eamonn O'Keeffe

First Assistant Director:
Chris Carreras
Kelly L'Estrange

First Assistant Editor:
Simon Cozens
Yann Hervé
Donald Likovich

Floor Runner:
Dan John

Focus Puller:
David Bryant
Angus Hudson

Foley Artist:
James Moriana
Ellen Heuer

Foley Editor:
Aaron Glascock
Solange S. Schwalbe

Foley Mixer:
David W. Alstadter

Foley Recordist:
Don Givens

Gaffer:
John Higgins
George Ball

General Manager:
Scott Ross

Graphic Designer:
Judith Bell
Mark Bowey

Grip:
Jean-Pierre Mas
William Tricarico
Ronald Carr
Tomislav Culina
Eric Alan Donaldson
Terrance O'Connor
Gary A. Williams
Jamie Young
David Knudson
Matt Siess
Pierre Garnier
Rupert Lloyd-Parry

Hairdresser:
Lisa Tomblin
Sarah Love

Hairstylist:
Bunny Parker
Ward

Key Costumer:
Martine Rapin

Key Grip:
Joe Celeste

Key Hairdresser:
Sue Love

Key Makeup Artist:
Lois Burwell

Lighting Technician:
Chris Mortley

Location Manager:
Kevin De La Noy
Andrew MacDonald Brown
Thierry Guilmard

Machinist:
Pierre Garnier

Makeup Artist:
Amanda Knight
Pauline Heys
Melissa Lackersteen

Makeup Department Head:
Lois Burwell

Matte Painter:
Wayne John Haag

Modeling:
Mykel Denis
Alan McFarland
Steve Sanders
Robert Diepenbrock
Cameron Henderson
Steve Hyde
Jane Kilkenny
John La Valley
Tony Moffett
Brett Phillips
Flemming Rasmussen
Kittaya Robinson
Doug Shemer
Keith St. Aubin
Valentin Vassilev
Scott Nicholas Amendolare
'Evil' Ted Smith

Music Arranger:
Éric Serra

Music Supervisor:
Anita Camarata

Musician:
Nicholas Bucknall
Mike Hext

Negative Cutter:
Mo Henry

Orchestrator:
Hubert Bougis

Original Music Composer:
Éric Serra

Painter:
Mark White

Post Production Consulting:
Michael E. Phillips

Post Production Supervisor:
John A. Amicarella

Producer:
Patrice Ledoux

Producer's Assistant:
Sylvie Menard
Sylvia Pyke

Production Accountant:
George Marshall
Mike Smriga

Production Assistant:
Lee Tailor

Production Controller:
Kieran Woo

Production Coordinator:
Sallie Beechinor
Nell Brealey
Cari Chanin

Production Design:
Dan Weil

Production Director:
Bernard Grenet

Production Illustrator:
Jacques Rey
Tully Summers

Production Manager:
Sarah Bradshaw
Barrie Melrose
Monique Pautas

Production Office Assistant:
Mona Benjamin
Rebecca Brown

Project Manager:
Stephen Sobisky

Projection:
Jim Smith

Property Master:
Barry Wilkinson

Propmaker:
Paul Stephenson

Pyrotechnic Supervisor:
Thaine Morris

Pyrotechnician:
William Aldridge
Elia P. Popov

Rigging Gaffer:
Kenny Monger

Scoring Mixer:
Didier Lozahic

Screenplay:
Robert Mark Kamen
Luc Besson

Script Supervisor:
Jean Bourne
Sue Field

Sculptor:
Shaune Harrison
Roland Stevenson

Second Assistant Camera:
Ali Lakrouf

Second Assistant Director:
Frédéric Garson
Kevin Westley
Cliff Lanning

Second Unit:
Pascal Chaumeil

Second Unit Cinematographer:
Nick Tebbet

Second Unit Director:
Pascal Chaumeil

Second Unit Director of Photography:
Paul Gentry

Second Unit First Assistant Director:
Kelly L'Estrange

Sequence Supervisor:
Sean C. Cunningham
Sean Dever
Christine Lo
Joshua I. Kolden
Rodney J. McFall
Remo Balcells
Christopher Roda
Franklin Londin
Scott Stokdyk

Set Buyer:
David Lusby

Set Decoration:
Maggie Gray
Anna Pinnock

Set Designer:
James Hambidge

Set Dressing Buyer:
Nathalie Carles

Sound Designer:
Mark Mangini
John Pospisil
John P. Fasal

Sound Effects Editor:
Dwayne Avery
Julia Evershade
Howell Gibbens
Geoffrey G. Rubay
David A. Whittaker
David Lewis Yewdall

Sound Engineer:
Pierre Excoffier

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Ron Bartlett
Chris Jenkins
Mark Smith

Sound Recordist:
Brian D. Lucas
Andrea Eliseyan
Daniel Brisseau
Gary L.G. Simpson

Sound Supervisor:
Mark Mangini

Special Effects Assistant:
Anne Marie Walters

Special Effects Supervisor:
Nick Allder
Neil Corbould

Special Effects Technician:
Jonathan Angell
Bob Bromley
Paul Clancy
Michael Dunleavy
Paul Dunn
Nick Finlayson
Matthew Harlow
John Hatt
Kevin Herd
Terence Lathwell
Peter Notley
Melvyn Pearson
Roy Quinn
Shaun Rutter
Timothy Stracey
Jamie Thomas
Brian Warner
Peter White
Michael Durkan
Peter Netley
Rob Malos

Stand In:
Paul Kite

Standby Painter:
Paul Couch

Steadicam Operator:
John Ward

Still Photographer:
Jack English

Story:
Luc Besson

Storyboard Artist:
Lee Wilson
Collin Grant
Temple Clark

Stunt Coordinator:
Marc Boyle

Stunt Double:
Terry Jackson
Mirjam Montandon

Stunts:
Lucy Allen
Del Baker
Andy Bennett
Richard Bradshaw
Marc Cass
Stuart Clark
George Lane Cooper
David Cronnelly
Gabe Cronnelly
Ray De-Haan
Nrinder Dhudwar
Therese Donnelly
Neil Finnighan
Terry Forrestal
Joss Gower
Lyndon S. Hellewell
Paul Herbert
Eunice Huthart
Morgan Johnson
Derek Lea
Phil Lonergan
Tony Lucken
Mark Anthony Newman
Ray Nicholas
Adrian O'Neil
Lee Sheward
Andy Smart
Rachael Stephens

Supervising ADR Editor:
Curt Schulkey

Thanks:
Pierre Jouvet
Leslie Dilley
Bill Baggilaar
Richard Glass
Ted Hall
Brian Morrison
Alan Munro
Noah Tutak

Third Assistant Director:
Robert Grayson
Susan Inge Wood
Simon Downes

Title Designer:
Robert Dawson

Unit Production Manager:
Crys Forsyth-Smith

Utility Stunts:
Dean Forster

VFX Artist:
Jason Greenblum

VFX Production Coordinator:
Kelly L'Estrange
Jonathan F. Styrlund

Vehicles Coordinator:
Alain Darthou

Video Assist Operator:
Bob Bridges
Ben Koeller
Justin Owen

Visual Effects Art Director:
Ira Gilford
Ron Gress

Visual Effects Assistant Editor:
Ralph Cooley

Visual Effects Camera:
Ren Messer

Visual Effects Compositor:
Kelly Granite

Visual Effects Coordinator:
Tracy Takahashi

Visual Effects Editor:
Debra Wolff

Visual Effects Producer:
Daniel J. Lombardo

Visual Effects Production Assistant:
Eric Algren

Visual Effects Supervisor:
Bill Kent
Mark Stetson
Pascal Charpentier

Wardrobe Master:
Yvonne Hobbs
Joe Hobbs

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