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Closing a remarkable circle, TF1 espionage thriller “State of Alert,” starring legendary French singer-actor Patrick Bruel in his first major TV work, will world premiere March 27 at Series Mania.

The red carpet affair, featuring other cast and crew, will take place at the very same festival where Keshet Intl. head of drama Atar Dekel, having put through initial development, pitched the series as an Israeli project way back in 2018.

A fast-paced thriller set between Paris and the spectacular white-sand Negev Desert in Southern Israel, “State of Alert” kicks off with a taxi 43 kilometres outside Paris. Anatoly, a Russian journalist, is called on his cell-phone. When he answers, the taxi stops, on a railway crossing. The taxi doors lock, as a train thunders towards the car.

The assassination almost certainly involved software developed by Israeli intelligence services which can send a virus through a cell-phone call to take control of a car.

Renowned French actor and singer Patrick Bruel is making his TV debut in a leading role as a revered secret agent in “State of Alert,” a geopolitical thriller set in Paris.

The thriller, based on Dov Alfon’s bestselling novel “A Long Night in Paris” (“Unité 8200”), was produced by Elephant International with Keshet International (“Rough Diamonds”).

Slated to premiere later this year on TF1, “State of Alert” was directed by Dan Sachar, who notably worked as a second unit director on 36 episodes of “Fauda,” and co-directed episodes of “Tehran.”

Striking a similar chord as Netflix’s “Zero Day” with its timely techno plot and geo-political themes, “State of Alert” sees Bruel playing Israeli spy Zeey Abadi who travels to Paris for a tech summit where he embarks on an unexpected investigation to connect the dots between stolen software, the death of a Russian journalist and a mysterious disappearance three days...

Famed French singer and actor Patrick Bruel is one of the many Europeans who had settled in the idyllic L.A. neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. Now, he has lost his home in the devastating wildfire that has been ravaging the area since last week.

He bought the house eight years ago after his two sons, 21-year-old Leon and 19-year-old Oscar, moved there with their mother, the well-known novelist and filmmaker Amanda Sthers. Johnny Hallyday, the late French crooner, also encouraged Bruel to buy a house there and become his neighbor. Hallyday’s house, where his widow Laeticia lived with their two daughters, has now also perished in the fires.

“It’s a small and beautiful village, a place in which we felt extremely comfortable. It’s hard for me even to talk about it in the past tense. I was there five days ago. It’s very overwhelming,” Bruel tells Variety.

Snoop Dogg and Salma Hayek are among the stars set to carry the Olympic torch as the Games prepare to kick off in Paris.

Hayek — who is tied to France through her husband François-Henri Pinault, the boss of luxury group Kering and CAA owner Artemis — is currently carrying the torch from the Yvelines suburb to the Versailles Palace, alongside Didier Deschamps, the trainer of the France soccer national team, and singer Patrick Bruel.

Dogg, meanwhile, will be carrying it on Friday, the day of the opening ceremony, in Saint-Denis, where the Olympics Village housing athletes is based. As previously reported, Dogg will also also be a special correspondent for NBC during the Games. He will carry the torch alongside French model-turned-actor Laetitia Casta and rapper Mc Solaar.

Hayek and Dogg are part of a roster of big names participating in Olympics festivities. Lady Gaga and Celine Dion are also in...

Exclusive: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, a Golden Globe winner for his performance as Elvis Presley in the miniseries Elvis and nominated for The Tudors, has signed for management with Artist International Group. Meyers will next be seen starring in Cj Entertainment’s remake of Hide & Seek and as Sir James Brooke in director Michael Haussman’s historical feature Rajah.

Meyers most recently appeared in the fourth and fifth seasons 4 of Michael Hirst’s Emmy winning historical drama Vikings. Meyers also recently starred in director Harald Zwart’s German and English language WW2 feature, The 12th Man, and alongside James Caan and Rosanna Arquette in Amanda Sthers’ feature Holy Lands for Studio Canal.

Throughout his career, Meyers has worked with acclaimed directors such as Ang Lee, Oliver Stone, Woody Allen, JJ Abrams, Julie Taymor and Neil Jordan in films that include Ride With The Devil, Match Point, Mission: Impossible III and Bend It Like Beckham.

Bac Films has closed several deals on Bernard Stora’s “The Case,” a psychological thriller set in the South of France starring Niels Arestrup. The film had its market premiere at the UniFrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris, a five-day showcase of French movies wrapping on Jan. 20.

Arestrup stars in “The Case” as Luc Germon, a famous lawyer whose new client, Gilles Fontaine (Patrick Bruel) is a powerful business man suspected of having acquired his magnificent property on the French Riviera in a dubious condition. The movie was picked up for Spain (Vercine Distribución), China (Huanxi Media), Taiwan (Av-Jet) and Benelux (Athena Films).

Paul Hamy (“Sibyl”) and Michel Bouquet (“Renoir”) complete the cast. “The Case” was produced by Jpg Films and Bac Films which will release the movie during the second semester of this year.

During the UniFrance Rendez-Vous, Bac Films also hosted the market premieres of “Yakari, A Spectacular Journey,...

The Rome Film Festival (October 17-27) has unveiled its 2019 official selection, which includes Downton Abbey, Waves, Judy, The Aeronauts, Hustlers and Werner Herzog documentary Nomad[/link] about writer Bruce Chatwin.

A total of 33 films and documentaries will play in the official lineup (full list below). As previously announced, the fest will open with Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn while Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will have a centerpiece screening. Only two Italian movies are included in the main selection.

The festival also revealed a pre-opening October 16 world premiere for John Turturro’s anticipated The Big Lebowski spinoff, The Jesus Rolls, which follows Lebowski character Jesus Quintana.

The impressive lineup of onstage interviews includes Bill Murray and Viola Davis – both of whom will receive lifetime achievement awards – Fanny Ardant, Olivier Assayas, Ethan Coen, Benicio Del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Ron Howard, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Edward Norton, Bertrand Tavernier, John Travolta and Jia Zhangke.

Exclusive: Manager Chris Prapha has joined David Unger’s global management company Artist International Group as a partner. He brings with him a roster of global talent that includes Julia Ormond, Jordi Molla and Nastassja Kinski among others.

Previously at Anonymous Content and Charles Finch’s Artist Independent, Prapha developed extensive relationships in the international market. “The future of the industry is global and the inclusion of diverse talent has allowed for new and transformative collaborations across borders,” he said.

Unger added, “Together we have a true understanding of the greater global scale when it comes to championing international talent and ideas across different territories and cultures. We’re very excited to provide our clients with a more global approach.”

Founded by Unger, Artist International Group counts a diverse, multi-cultural roster with clients from the U.S., UK,...

Exclusive: Veteran talent agent and manager David Unger has launched Artist International Group, a global talent management, branding and content production company. Unger will be CEO and continue to represent actors, writers, directors and financiers as well as produce film and television projects under the banner. He said the company will have offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong.

Unger launches the venture with clients that include Michelle Yeoh (Crazy Rich Asians), Anil Kapoor (Slumdog Millionaire), Gong Li (Memoirs of a Geisha), Tom Welling (Smallville), Patrick Bruel (A Bag of Marbles), Hanee Lee (Extreme Job), Mallika Sherawat (Time Raiders), Elsa Zylberstein (I’ve Loved You So Long), Siwon Choi (Dragon Blade) and Saïd Taghmaoui (Wonder Woman). Writer-director clients include Amanda Sthers (Madame), Tony Kaye (American History X), Francesco Carrozzini (Franca: Chaos and Creation) and Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction) among others.

As reflected by the talent list,...

"I hope the strange adventure you're on is bringing you happiness..." Studiocanal UK has released the official UK trailer for the Israeli drama Holy Lands, the latest feature film written and directed by French filmmaker Amanda Sthers. James Caan stars in Holy Lands as Harry Rosenmerck, an Ashkenazi Jewish American cardiologist, who decides to leave everything to become a pig farmer in the Holy Land. Filmed in the iconic landscapes of Israel, Holy Lands is "a universal story about love, family, loss and tolerance, told with incredible humour and heart through career best performances by a stellar ensemble cast." The film shows that, "even in the most dysfunctional of families, what matters is the courage to say what has been left unsaid." This also stars Tom Hollander, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rosanna Arquette, Efrat Dor, Reem Kherici, Patrick Bruel, and Loai Nofi. Looks a bit odd, but seems like a heartfelt and honest film.

Titles include The Best Is Yet To Come, Sweetheart and Let’s Dance.

Pathé International has unveiled a raft of Efm sales, led by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patelliere’s The Best Is Yet To Come starring Fabrice Fabrice Luchini and Patrick Bruel as old friends making up for lost time.

The comedy pre-sold to Italy (Lucky Red), Germany (Constantin), Spain (Vertigo), Portugal (Cinemundo), Canada (Az Films), Greece (Feelgood), Belgium (Alternative Films) and Switzerland (Pathé Ag).

In other deals Lisa Azuelos’s rom-com Sweetheart has sealed deals in Italy (I Wonder pictures), Germany (Alamode), Portugal (Cinemundo), Canada (MK...

A Bag Of Marbles (Un sac de billes) Gaumont Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Christian Duguay Screenwriter: Alexandra Geismar, Jonathan Allouche w/ collaboration of Laurent Zeitoun and based on the graphic novel by Joseph Joffo and Vincent Bailly Cast: Patrick Bruel, Dorian Le Clech, Batyste Fleurial Palmieri, Elsa Zylberstein Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 2/8/18 […]

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Bag of Marbles (Un sac de billes) is an autobiographical film about two young brothers in occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, who discover within themselves the courage, the bravery, and the mischief needed to escape the enemy’s invasion and reunite with their lost family.

Thought I missed seeing this three-time Audience Award winning film starring Patrick Bruel, Dorian Le Clech, Batyste Fleurial Palmieri and Elsa Zylberstein when it premiered in U.S. at Colcoa here in L.A., I was able to interview the director Christian Duguay and actor Patrick Bruel before its U.S. release March 23.

See the trailer Here.

Christian Duguay was born in 1957 in Outremont, Québec, Canada. As a dirextor his is known for Human Trafficking (2005), The Art of War (2000) and Red Brazil (2012).

Patrick Bruel was born on May 14, 1959 in Tlemcen, France (Algeria) as Patrick Benguigui. He is one of the most famous French singers and actors in France,...

Putting the mind-boggling moral, ethical and legal issues of baby selling aside, Italian director Sebastiano Riso (Darker than Midnight) creates a memorably unpleasant drama about a weak woman who allows her callous French boyfriend (Patrick Bruel) to cash in on their newborn infants. While the strong subject matter should get the film onto a lot of talk shows in Italy, where all forms of surrogacy are illegal, it also will turn off many viewers not into cinematic socio-pathology.

It’s tough to watch the excellent Micaela Ramazzotti playing Maria, a masochistic doormat that no one, least of all female audiences, can...

Exclusive: World War Two drama is based on Joseph Joffo’s best-selling classic novel.

Gaumont has secured a slew of sales on Christian Duguay’s heart-warming drama A Bag Of Marbles about two young Jewish brothers fending for themselves in German-occupied during World War Two.

The picture, which world market premieres at the Afm, is based on Joseph Joffo’s eponymous best-selling novel based on his own experiences.

The film has sold to South Korea (Double & Joy), Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Spain (A Contracorriente), Greece (Odeon), Italy (Notorious), Portugal (Lusomundo) and Yugoslavia (Dexin).

It has also been picked up for Israel (Lev), the Middle East (Four Star) and Turkey (Medyavizyon). Cine Video y TV have done a pan-Latin America deal covering Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.

Canadian director Duguay’s recent credits include family film Belle And Sebastian: The Adventure Continues.

Key adult cast includes Patrick Bruel, Christian Clavier, [link...

The Franco-American Cultural Fund, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, has announced the program for the 20th Colcoa French Film Festival that will run April 18-26 at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. The festival will showcase a record 70 films and television series - among them 64 in competition for Colcoa Awards - including four World Premieres, seven International Premieres, 19 North American or U.S. Premieres, 17 West Coast Premieres - and 21 new shorts. Colcoa, is now the world's largest event dedicated to French films and television.

"This 20th anniversary deserves a spectacular, strong program that reflects the diversity of French production, as well as the creativity and dynamism of French filmmakers and producers," stated François Truffart, Colcoa Executive Producer and Artistic Director. "More than ever, we are about to involve audiences in a journey that will stir them, make them laugh, cry, tickle their curiosity, and help them remain optimistic, while recognizing the urgent world zeitgeist."

 "20 years is an achievement for any film festival in Hollywood. This would not have been possible without the commitment of the Franco-American Cultural Fund - a unique partnership of the DGA, the Mpa, la Sacem and the WGA West - creator of the festival in 1996 and supporter of its subsequent development. We also salute French sales companies, official supporters, sponsors, and U.S. distributors, whose loyalty and trust have given the festival its continuing excellence," he added.

Colcoa will open Monday, April 18th with the North American Premiere of "Monsieur Chocolat," a biopic about the first French black clown, co-written by Cyril Gely, Olivier Gorce, Gérard Noiriel, Roschdy Zem, directed by Roschdy Zem, and starring Omar Sy and James Thiérrée. The film will be presented in association with Gaumont, which celebrates its 120th anniversary.

The festival will close its competition on Monday, April 25th with the World Premiere of "Up For Love," the new romantic comedy written and directed by Laurent Tirard, starring Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin and Virginie Efira. "Call My Agent" (Season 1), the most popular French TV series of the year, about a talent agency with actors playing their own roles, will close the Colcoa TV Competition.

Two other TV series, shown for the first time in North America, will be part of the program, presented in association with TV France International and Titrafilm: "The Disappearance," a drama co-written by Marie Deshaires and Catherine Touzet and directed by Charlotte Brändström; and "The Secret of Elise," a supernatural drama written by lsa Marpeau, Marie Vinoy, Marie Deshaires, and Catherine Touzet and directed by Alexandre Laurent, Samir Boitard, Mathieu Simonet, and Mehdi Meskar. The first two episodes of each series will be shown to the Colcoa audience.

To complete the competition, five TV movies will premiere at Colcoa: the North American Premiere of "Borderline," a thriller co-written and directed by Olivier Marchal, the International Premiere of "Carpets and Chaos," a comedy co-written and directed by Nader Takmil Homayoun, the International Premiere of "Stolen Babies," a drama written by Julie Jézéquel and directed by Golden Globe winner Alain Berliner; the International Premiere of "The Wall-Crosser," a fantasy written and directed by Dante Desarthes, based on Marcel Aymé's book; and the North American Premiere of "Woman Under the Influence," a drama written and directed by Claude-Michel Rome. 

The feature film selection (40 features and documentaries and 21 shorts), will feature exclusive presentations. "Fanny's Journey," an epic drama written and directed by Lola Doillon, starring Cecile de France, is also a World Premiere. The U.S. Premiere of the thriller "Made in France," written and directed by Nicolas Boukhrief, is a film which did not have theatrical release in France because of sensitivity following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.  Colcoa also will present the U.S. Premiere of Robert Guédiguian's provocative film about the Armenian genocide, "Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad." The U.S. Premiere of Oscar ® winner Claude Lelouch's new film "Un plus Une," starring Jean Dujardin and Elsa Zylberstein, will screen, in addition to another U.S. Premiere of "All Gone South," the comedy sequel co-written and co-directed by Nicolas Benamou and Philippe Lacheau, two years after the success of Babysitting at Colcoa in 2014.

Several established writers/directors return and other known artists have been selected: Academy Award nominee Christian Carion ("Come What May"- with Cohen Media Group), Anne Fontaine ("The Innocents" - with Music Box Films), Vincent Garencq ("Kalinka"), Academy Award nominee Jean-Paul Rappeneau ("Families"), Christian Vincent ("Courted"), Maïwenn ("My King" - with Film Movement)

Every year, the Colcoa program is dedicated to a new generation of talent, many of whose films are included in Colcoa's French NeWave 2.0 Series: Samuel Collardey ("Land Legs"), Clément Cogitor ("Neither Heaven Nor Earth" - with Film Movement), Philippe Faucon - the writer/director of the 2016 César Best film winner ("Fatima" - with Kino Lorber), Emmanuel Finkiel ("A Decent Man"), Eva Husson ("Bang Gang" - with Samuel Goldwyn), Laurent Larivière ("I am a Soldier"), and Orelsan and Christophe Offenstein ("Uncompleted Song").

The After 10 Series at Colcoa invites audiences to explore new frontiers with an exclusive program, including the French-Belgian co-production from writer/director Bouli Lanners ("The First, the Last"), the new dark comedy from Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern, starring Gérard Depardieu ("Saint Amour"), and Frédéric Schoendoerffer ("Past Convoy").

Two anticipated films about women in Muslim countries will be part of theWord Cinema Produced by France Series: the Franco-Moroccan co-production, "Much Loved," written and directed by Nabil Ayouch, premiered at the Director's Fortnight in 2015, and remains banned in Morocco; and, "As I Open My Eyes," a Franco-Tunisian film from female writer/director Leyla Bouzid (with Kino Lorber). The Argentine film, "Eva Doesn't Sleep," written and directed by Pablo Agüero will complete the series.

Two documentaries focusing on significant environmental issues will premiere at Colcoa: the closing film of the last Cannes Film Festival, "Ice and the Sky" (with Music Box Films) from Academy Award winner Luc Jacquet (March of the Penguins), and a special presentation following the United Nations screening of the 2016 Cesar winner for Best Documentary, "Tomorrow," written and directed by Cédric Dion and Mélanie Laurent. "The Frankenstein Complex," a tribute to the creators of big screen creatures, written and directed by Gilles Penso and Alexandre Poncet, will complete this high profile documentary series.

All other Colcoa series are back in 2016: the Colcoa Classics Series with an exclusive program of digitally restored premieres (see February 19th press release); the Happy Hour Talks PanelSeriesin association withVariety (April 19-25); the Short Film Competition (Sunday, April 24 -  March press release); the Focus on a Filmmaker, this year with writer/director Jean-Paul Rappeneau (Thursday, April 21); and the Focus on a Producer will be with Dominique Besnehard (Saturday, April 23).

Animation, an important part of the French film industry, will be shown at Colcoa with the premiere of Rémi Chayé's new film: "Long Way North" (with Shout Factory).

 As is Colcoa tradition, comedieswill join the program almost every day, including the romantic comedy "Love at First Child," co-written and directed by Anne Giaffieri, starring Patrick Bruel and Isabelle Carré, Benoît's Graffin's "Hopefully," with Sandrine Kiberlain and Edouard Baer, Jean-Francois Richet's "One Wild Moment," starring Francois Cluzet and Vincent Cassel, and the new French hit "One Man and His Cow," written and directed by Mohamed Hamidi.

This last film will also be shown to the 3,000 students and teachers who will attend the now five High School Screenings (April 19-25) as part of the Colcoa Educational Program presented in association with Elma (European Languages and Movies in America). Two master classes for college and university students will complete the program.

For the ninth year, Lafca will partner with Colcoa Cinema for the Critics' Awards. The complete recipients list of the 2015 Awards - including the U.S. distributor winner of the Colcoa Coming Soon Award, presented in association with Kpcc, will be announced on Wednesday, April 27. Colcoa Awards are presented in association with Titrafilm, TV5 Monde USA, and Air Tahiti Nui.

Protagonist Pictures, Wide, Gaumont and TF1 International have concluded fresh deals in Germany with features from this year’s European Film Market.

Protagonist sold Rebecca Miller’s next feature film, the romantic comedy of manners Maggie’s Plan, starring Berlinale jury member Greta Gerwig and Julianne Moore, to Christian Meinke’s Mfa+ FilmDistribution.

Mfa+ previously released Frances Ha, with Gerwig in the title role, and will open Korean film-maker Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, which screened in the Berlinale’s Forum section, in German cinemas on 3 April.

Deals by French sales agents

French sales company Wide signed a deal with Neue Visionen for Vinko Bresan’s top-grossing Croatian comedy The Priest’s Children, while its documentary sales arm Wide House sold Kenneth Elvebakk’s Norwegian documentary Ballet Boys to Cmv Laservision.

Munich-based distributor Prokino picked up Danish film-maker Jonas Alexander Arnby’s coming-of-age horror film When Animals Dream from Gaumont, and Pro-Fun acquired Chris Mason Johnson’s [link...

Protagonist Pictures, Wide, Gaumont and TF1 International have concluded fresh deals in Germany with features from this year’s European Film Market.

Protagonist sold Rebecca Miller’s next feature film, the romantic comedy of manners Maggie’s Plan, starring Berlinale jury member Greta Gerwig and Julianne Moore, to Christian Meinke’s Mfa+ FilmDistribution.

Mfa+ previously released Frances Ha, with Gerwig in the title role, and will open Korean film-maker Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, which screened in the Berlinale’s Forum section, in German cinemas on 3 April.

Deals by French sales agents

French sales company Wide signed a deal with Neue Visionen for Vinko Bresan’s top-grossing Croatian comedy The Priest’s Children, while its documentary sales arm Wide House sold Kenneth Elvebakk’s Norwegian documentary Ballet Boys to Cmv Laservision.

Munich-based distributor Prokino picked up Danish film-maker Jonas Alexander Arnby’s coming-of-age horror film When Animals Dream from Gaumont, and Pro-Fun acquired Chris Mason Johnson’s [link...

Pierre (Charles Berling), a university prof who wears corduroy “like his second skin,” and his wife Elizabeth (Valérie Benguigui), an eternally optimistic middle-school teacher, are hosting a small dinner party for three guests. Claude (Guillaume de Tonquedec), a single and successful trombonist, has been best friends with Elizabeth since their childhood. Her carefree brother, Vincent (Patrick Bruel), is also joining along with his pregnant wife, Anna (Judith El Zein). All hope for a quiet and casual gathering is thrown violently out the window when the night becomes a highly combustible, Mediterranean food-fueled fracas among friends and family. The fireworks start innocently enough when, with Anna running late, Vincent entertains guesses from the others as to what they’ve decided to name their unborn son. They all come up short leading him to reveal a name that quickly moves the room from incredulous to enraged. The ensuing argument triggers a spate of insults, insinuations...

By Any Other Name: Patellerie & Delaporte’s Debut a Comfortably Forced Farce

Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patelliere’s co-directorial debut, What’s in a Name? is a comfortable, graciously performed adaptation of their hit, one-setting stage play about a volatile dinner party, and, in fact, has become one of the biggest blockbusters in the history of French film. Breezy, intellectual sparring that’s an equal mix of comedic timing and dark realizations amongst its five characters, the film manages to avoid feeling like a play on film, but its likeness to other, superior films dealing with similar familial unrest around the dinner table lends it a rather tired air, especially considering its insistence on easily attained resolution.

A mistaken pizza delivery brings us to the home of a professor, Pierre (Charles Berling) and Babu (Valerie Benguigui), his school teacher wife. She’s preparing a Moroccan cuisine for what...

What's in a name, when that name is Adolphe? Four characters at a dinner party — a fortysomething married couple and the wife's lifelong friend and brother — debate that very question for half an hour when one of them, soon-to-be father Vincent (Patrick Bruel), announces that it will be the name of his future child.

"My son will be a great guy," boasts Vincent. "He'll beat fascism. He'll break Hitler's monopoly [over that name]." The arrival of little Adolphe's mother (Judith El Zein) instigates another half-hour debate, this time about whether Élisabeth and Pierre (Valérie Benguigui and Charles Berling), the married couple, were too precious in naming their children Apollin and Myrtille.

The premise of parents attacking each other for their t...

Exclusive: English-language picture stars Gérard Depardieu, Sam Neill, Tim Roth and Jemima West.

TF1 International is launching sales on Frédéric Auburtin’s FIFA picture A Men’s Dream starring Gérard Depardieu as the soccer federation’s colourful co-founder and World Cup creator Jules Rimet.

The English-language picture captures the history of the 110-year-old International Federation of Association Football through the intertwining stories of Rimet, long-serving Brazilian FIFA president Joao Havelange and Swiss Sepp Blatter who is currently at the helm of the organisation.

Sam Neill plays Havelange and Tim Roth plays Blatter.

“We picked up the project because we think it will appeal to a large and wide audience… not just hardcore football fans. The film tells the human story behind this huge world body through the lives of these three passionate, emblematic figures,” said TF1 International sales chief Sabine Chemaly.

The film, produced by Paris-based Thelma Films and Leuviah Films, was shot this...

Exclusive: English-language picture stars Gérard Depardieu, Sam Neill, Tim Roth and Jemima West.

TF1 International is launching sales on Frédéric Auburtin’s FIFA picture A Men’s Dream starring Gérard Depardieu as the soccer federation’s colourful co-founder and World Cup creator Jules Rimet.

The English-language picture captures the history of the 110-year-old International Federation of Association Football through the intertwining stories of Rimet, long-serving Brazilian FIFA president Joao Havelange and Swiss Sepp Blatter who is currently at the helm of the organisation.

Sam Neill plays Havelange and Tim Roth plays Blatter.

“We picked up the project because we think it will appeal to a large and wide audience… not just hardcore football fans. The film tells the human story behind this huge world body through the lives of these three passionate, emblematic figures,” said TF1 International sales chief Sabine Chemaly.

The film, produced by Paris-based Thelma Films and Leuviah Films, was shot this...

The sixth installment of the X-Men franchise, The Wolverine powered the Australian box-office last weekend, raking in $6.1 million.

While that.s a strong opening, it.s below the $6.6 million debut for X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009.

In the Us, the Australian-shot Hugh Jackman starrer fetched $US53 million, well below 20th Century Fox.s projections. .We didn.t expect this either,. a Fox rep told Deadline.com . .But there have been times before when audience fatigue from the summer sets in..

Given the competition from the mutants, James Wan.s The Conjuring had an astoundingly strong hold, dipping by just 10% in its second weekend, which suggests word-of-mouth is helping to drive ticket sales. The supernatural thriller conjured up $1.6 million, bringing its total to $4.1 million.

Raunchy Apocalyptic horror- comedy This Is the End fell by a more typical 45% to $1.3 million in its second round, making $5.1 million to date.

Steven Soderbergh.s Behind the Candelabra,...

Sophie Lellouche’s love letter to Woody Allen and directorial debut Paris-Manhattan, begins with a homage to the great filmmakers familiar opening titles, with a simplistic white writing against a plain, black background. However they aren’t presented in the same, infamous Windsor font, and it’s this slight indifference which sets the precedence for how the rest of this picture will play out, as although certainly a charming and genial tribute to Allen, it just isn’t quite as accomplished or ingenious as his work.

Alice Taglioni plays Alice, a Woody Allen obsessive who runs the family owned pharmacy, where she believes that classic movies such as Manhattan and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) are the perfect remedy to her customers conditions. However such films can’t cure herself of loneliness, as she struggles to find a partner – despite her father...

Love isn’t always easy, but sometimes the wisdom you need to navigate matters of the heart can be found in the movies. Cinema actually contains the answers to most of life’s questions provided you ask the right ones, know where to look and don’t have terrible taste in films. This is well-established fact. Alice (Alice Taglioni) is a believer in this theory I just made up, but she subscribes to a very specific application of it. Put simply, she loves Woody Allen and his films to the point that she has conversations with the life-size poster of him in her bedroom. She asks for advice, and he replies with dialogue from his movies. The results haven’t exactly been spectacular, but she’s convinced that he knows what he’s talking about. She meets and falls for a young man, but her sister swoops him up and makes him her own. Ten years later...

Kavinsky has cut a famously mythic figure in the world of French electronic music, folding himself into his alter-ego, a Ferrari Testarossa-driving zombie from a bygone decade.

It helped that he is perhaps only known to wider American audiences by a song on a movie soundtrack, "Nightcall," from the Ryan Gosling and auto-porn vehicle "Drive." That haunting tune also offers the centerpiece for Kavinsky's own soundtrack, though its corresponding movie has yet to make it out of the producer's mind. "OutRun," Kavinsky's debut studio LP, landed in stores Monday.

In person, however, Kavinsky (born Vincent Belorgey -- he changed the name because he didn't think it fit the whole zombie-dj-producer narrative) is disarmingly casual. He freely dispatches electronic dance music poster-boy David Guetta as a horrible reference and says Guetta -- also French -- ruined Kid Cudi's career, but does so in as not-flashy a manner as possible.

"OutRun...

The nominations for the César Awards aka the French Oscars were announced. "Farewell, My Queen," "Amour," "Camille Redouble," "In the House," "Rust & Bone," "Holy Motors," and "What's My Name" are competing for the Best Picture category. We'll find out the winners on February 22nd.

Here's the full list of nominees of the 2013 César Awards:

Best Picture

Farewell, My Queen

Amour

Camille Redouble

In The House

Rust & Bone

Holy Motors

What.s In A Name

Best Director

Benoît Jacquot, Farewell, My Queen

Michael Haneke, Amour

Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble

François Ozon, In The House

Jacques Audiard, Rust & Bone

Leos Carax, Holy Motors

Stéphane Brizé, Quelques Heures De Printemps

Best Actress

Catherine Frot, Les Sauveurs Du Palais

Marion Cotillard, Rust & Bone

Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble

Corinne Masiero, Louise Wimmer

Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

Léa Seydoux, Farewell, My Queen

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Best Actor

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Paris-Manhattan

Written and directed by Sophie Lellouche

France, 2012

Concerning a Woody Allen obsessive, Paris-Manhattan borrows a central conceit from one of the man’s most beloved writing and acting efforts, albeit not one he directed himself. Instead of the apparition of Humphrey Bogart appearing to deliver advice like in Play It Again, Sam, Allen himself, in the form of a life-size poster and extracts from his films, is the maxim-dispenser of Sophie Lellouche’s debut feature.

In the film’s opening, protagonist Alice (Alice Taglioni) explains in voice-over that she and Woody Allen formed a connection when she first saw one of his films (Hannah and Her Sisters) at age fifteen, and that, in reference to Allen’s prolific work-rate, the two have maintained an annual “relationship” ever since. In the narrative’s present, Alice is single and working at her father’s pharmacy. Having found all answers to her...

London – James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer won the Golden Hitchcock Award as this year's Dinard British Film Festival came to a close. A star-studded jury including Celia Imrie, Stephen Dillane and jury president Patrick Bruel under the watchful eye of this year's 'hommage' recipient, Brit acting legend Tom Courtenay, plumped for Marsh's film starring Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough. The Golden Hitchcock nod comprises of financial help to the French distributor and the filmmaker and also The Cine+ Award, which offers a promotional campaign on France's Ciné+ channels at the time of release. Shadow Dancer also won the Prix Public chosen

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Woody Allen has taken a break from directing to return to acting. The 75-year-old filmmaker filmed a scene on April 2 for the upcoming movie ‘Paris Manhattan’ in front of the Plaza Athenee hotel on Avenue Montaigne in the city of lights, collider.com is reporting. Allen plays himself in ‘Paris Manhattan,’ his first acting role since he starred in his own movie ‘Scoop’ in 2006. ‘Paris Manhattan’ is a romantic comedy, and is the first movie to be helmed by French director Sophie Lellouche. It follows a young pharmacist, played by Alice Taglioni, who is obsessed with Allen. Her family hopes another man, played by Patrick Bruel, will get her mind [...]...

DVD Playhouse—March 2011

By

Allen Gardner

127 Hours (20th Century Fox) Harrowing true story of Aron Ralston (James Franco, in another fine turn), an extreme outdoorsman who finds himself trapped in a remote Utah canyon, his arm pinned between two boulders, with no help nearby, no communication to the outside world, and dim prospects for survival, to say the least. Director Danny Boyle manages to prove again that he’s one of the finest filmmakers working today by making a subject that is seemingly uncinematic a true example of pure cinema. Inventive, breathtaking, funny, and horrifying, often all at once. Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara make a memorable, brief appearance as hikers who connect with Ralston during his journey. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Boyle, producer Christian Colson, co-writer Simon Beaufoy; Deleted scenes; Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.

Amarcord (Criterion) Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning, autobiographical classic might...

Claude Miller’s A Secret is a solid, satisfying drama about the consequences of barely-guised desire set against the dangerous political background of Nazi-occupied France. Based on Philippe Grimbert’s autobiographical novel, A Secret constructs its revelations through enspirited premonitions and layered flashbacks, interestingly rendered in full color while the present day is shot in black and white; a cinematic inversion of the norm that works quite successfully, as if to say (by way of color) that there is more life in the past than there will ever be in the present. In other words, the colorful secrets of the past have leached the vitality out of the present.

Scrawny François (Valentin Vigourt) was born a four-pound baby who, despite vitamin B injections, has never physically developed into any form of noticeable strength. His imagination is strong, however. He imagines a stronger older brother who defrays the frustrated disappointment of...

I first saw veteran French director Claude Miller's "A Secret" at a film festival last year. I was underwhelmed. I saw it again a few weeks ago, and was more impressed, although still bothered by its shameless sentimentality.

Based on true events, it tells of secrets harbored by a French Jewish family torn asunder by sexual passion and the Holocaust.

The cast is first-rate, with pixie-haired Cécile de France - playing an athletic, head-turning mother - as the centerpiece.

She is backed by Patrick Bruel as her husband; Julie Depardieu (Gerard's sister...

There's a bold bit of linkage between the historical and the personal in A Secret, Claude Miller's adaptation of Philippe Grimbert's autobiographical novel about growing up in a French Jewish family in the decades after World War II. The film is narrated by Mattieu Amalric, speaking as an adult looking back on his childhood with his attractive, athletic, aristocratic parents Cécile de France and Patrick Bruel. Amalric describes how he had an imaginary brother that his parents knew nothing about, and how in his head he'd built his parents up as the heroes of a romantic epic—with him being their happy ending. While Amalric is reminiscing, Miller cuts to a montage of Nazi rallies. The message: Just as the Nazis concocted the myth of Aryan supremacy to excuse their nefarious rise, so Amalric's family ignores its ghosts to justify a life of privilege. A Secret jumps back and.

PARIS -- Love was in the air as Chico Teixeira's Brazilian film "A casa de Alice" won the Golden Swann prize for best film at the 22nd Cabourg Romantic Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday night in the French seaside town.

A jury presided by filmmaker Jean-Pierre Denis named Patrick Bruel best actor for his role in Claude Miller's Holocaust drama "A Secret". Gallic actress Laetitia Casta took home the best actress award for her performance in Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's dramatic comedy "Nes en 68" (Born in '68).

Other members of the fest's jury included director-actresses Anne Le Ny and Maiwenn, actresses Claire Nebout, Lolita Chammah and Hafsia Herzi, actor Clement Sibony and writer Emmanuelle Cosso-Merad.

Emmanuel Mouret won the best director award for "Un baiser, s'il vous plait" (A kiss, please). "Welcome to the Sticks" star Anne Marivin was named most promising actress and Yannick Renier was given the most promising actor prize for his role in "Nes en 68".

Local High School students gave their young jury prize to Doris Dorrie's German title "Cherry Blossoms".

Strand Releasing

One of Claude Miller's most personal films to date, A Secret also is among the strongest in a 40-year career that yielded the memorable 1981 crime drama Under Suspicion.

Adapted by Miller and Natalie Carter from the Philippe Grimbert autobiographical novel, this stirring period portrait of a French family harboring a dark past takes familiar subject matter and casts it in a provocative setting.

It also has in leads Cecile De France, Ludivine Sagnier and Julie Depardieu three of the today's top French actresses -- Depardieu won a Caesar Award for her supporting performance -- making it a smart U.S. acquisition for Strand Releasing. Secret recently screened at the City of Lights, City of Angels festival.

Set primarily during the 1950s, the film is seen through the eyes of Francois Grimbert, a gawky, introverted 14-year-old who has always felt like a disappointment to his gregarious, athletic father (Patrick Bruel) and beautiful, former swim champ mother (De France).

There turns out to be justification for his deep-seated feelings of inadequacy, as Francois uncovers uncomfortable truths about his parents' lives as a young Jewish couple living in France during the Occupation.

To reveal anything more wouldn't be fair to this intriguing study in guilt and forgiveness, and the personal choices made that would reverberate throughout subsequent generations.

Incorporating a beautifully shot, clever color schematic, Miller, himself a child of the Holocaust, shifts effortlessly between three distinct time periods, while the exceptionally cast performers (also including "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly's" Mathieu Amalric as the adult Francois) imbue their generously written roles with both a palpable passion and a heartbreaking vulnerability.

PARIS -- After a successful visit to New York, French films will continue their world tour as Unifrance's third annual "Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Japan" kicks off Thursday in Tokyo and Osaka, organizers said Monday.

Gallic actress-turned-director Sophie Marceau will preside over a festival that will feature 14 Gallic feature films, including Marceau's own "Trivial", Eric Rohmer's "The Romance of Astree and Celadon" and Claude Miller's "A Secret". Seven short films will complete the selection.

Unifrance also is planning a special retrospective devoted to French New Wave director Jacques Rivette. Bulle Ogier and Pascal Bonitzer will present Rivette works including "Mad Love", "The Gang of Four", "La Belle Noiseuse", "Celine and Julie Go Boating" and "Joan the Maiden".

French talent expected to make the trip across the globe include actors Patrick Bruel and Christopher Lambert, actresses Ludivine Sagnier and Julie Depardieu and directors Cedric Klapisch and Denis Dercourt, who will meet with Japanese press throughout the five-day event.

Gallic producers and international sales agents also plan to make the trip on their way to the Hong Kong Filmart, which begins the day after Unifrance's event wraps.

PARIS -- French director Daniele Thompson will follow up her 2006 hit "Avenue Montaigne" with "Le Code a Change", set to star a flock of famous French faces, producer Thelma Films said Monday.

Despite its title, which in English means, "The Code Has Changed", Thompson will stick to her winning formula of a Paris-based ensemble dramedy featuring the creme de la creme of Gallic talent and focusing on the lives of wealthy Parisians.

Co-produced by Alain Terzian's Alter Films, "Code" stars Karin Viard, Danny Boon, Marina Fois, Marina Hands, Emmanuelle Seigner, Patrick Bruel, Patrick Chesnais, Pierre Arditi and Laurent Stocker.

Keeping with family tradition, Thompson's son Christopher, co-writer of "Montaigne", will co-star in the pic.

The story brings together a potpourri of personalities from the Parisian upper class for a humorous, emotionally charged dinner that unveils deceiving appearances and uncovered truths.

After penning the scripts for French films "La Grande Vadrouille" (1966) and "The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob" (1973) alongside her father Gerard Oury, "Montaigne" will be Thompson's fourth turn in the director's chair.

BERLIN -- "A Comedy of Power" has a joke built into its title. While the film is no comedy, the point of view from veteran French auteur Claude Chabrol is essentially comic: He sees a clash of power between an investigating French magistrate and corporate executives and politicians grabbing money by misappropriating public funds as an adolescent pissing contest. Everyone thinks he or she holds ultimate power, but Chabrol -- who, after all, as the movie's director is the real power here -- strips away the privileges and responsibilities of the "powerful" to reveal people unable to control even their own lives.

The movie is too parochial for a wide audience. The French judicial system is totally alien to Americans, for instance, plus the film is a talkathon. There are hints in Matthieu Chabrol's Hitchcock-like musical themes -- yes, that's the director's son -- and in moments of extreme paranoia exhibited by characters that a thriller lurks just beneath the surface. If it does, it never appears.

Instead audiences must contend with a soundtrack jammed with dialogue, yet little of what's said about money laundering, corporate restructuring, real estate deals, stock funds and Swiss bank accounts means anything. All that matters lies in the tone of voice and look in the eyes. Consequently, there will be a limited theatrical audience for this seventh collaboration between Chabrol and his star, Isabella Huppert, in North America. Even in Europe, this is art house fare.

Huppert plays a headstrong, relentless examining judge, who according to French law holds unassailable powers. Even in her first scene, it's clear that power has gone to her head.

A pompous though nervous chairman of a major corporation, Humeau (Francois Berleand), is unceremoniously arrested as he exits his Paris office building. He is thrown into prison without concern for his mighty position. The next day, the police drag him before Judge Jeanne Charmant (Huppert) without her even allowing him medicine for a skin allergy.

By the time this first interrogation has finished, our sympathies have switched. Humeau might be a rascal, but we feel sorry for anyone who comes up against the "piranha" judge. Those sympathies extend to her husband, Philippe (Robin Renucci), a medical lab technician who feels power in the household shifted long ago despite the fact he comes from wealth while she was practically the family maid before he married her.

A crafty businessman, Sibaud (Patrick Bruel), supplies Jeanne with leads to investigate charges of embezzlement and misuse of funds in this corporation in the mistaken belief he can control her. The same goes for people up the line of power from a powerful senator to the chief judge. She cuts everyone down to size and loves doing it. Even pairing Jeanne with a fellow female judge (Maryline Canto) doesn't work -- indeed it doubles the women's power.

Perhaps Chabrol isn't talking so much about power struggles as the voracious appetite for control and authority by rampaging feminists. Certainly men are portrayed here as losing the battle of the sexes. Badly. The only redemptive male is Jeanne's husband's nephew Felix (Thomas Chabrol, and yes, this is another of the director's sons). This easygoing bourgeois slacker makes a comic contrast to Jeanne's workaholism.

The movie sags in the middle. Even an acrimonious split between the judge and her husband doesn't raise the emotional stakes because love appears to have gone out of this relationship long ago. More puzzling, a drastic act by the distraught husband and a maneuver that removes the judge from the case lead to no epiphanies for Jeanne. She just doesn't understand that power can be an illusion. When the movie ends on a flat note, it causes one to realize how few high notes it ever achieved.

"A Comedy of Power" is somewhat typical of recent efforts by the great French director -- natural lighting, real locations, well-upholstered decors, veteran actors at home with reams of dialogue and a narrative that favors thought over action and behavior over emotion.

A COMEDY OF POWER

Aliceleo/France 2 Cinema/Ajoz Films/Integral Filmwith the participation of Canal Plus

Credits:

Director: Claude Chabrol

Screenwriters: Odile Barski, Claude Chabrol

Producer: Patrick Godeau

Director of photography: Eduardo Serra

Production designer: Francoise Benoit-Fresco

Music: Mathieu Chabrol

Costumes: Mic Cheminal

Editor: Monique Fardoulis

Cast:

Jeanne Charmant: Isabelle Huppert

Humeau: Francois Berleand

Sibaud: Patrick Bruel

Philippe Charmant: Robin Renucci

Erika: Maryline Canto

Felix: Thomas Chabrol

No MPAA rating

Running time -- 111 minutes...

A few stupid pet tricks and fetching Sophie Marceau as a contemporary object of desire are reasons to endure this mostly laughless vehicle for "Saturday Night Live" alum and "Just Shoot Me" star David Spade. The wide Warner Bros. release directed by Jeff Pollack ("Above the Rim", "Booty Call") will pay off quickly and unspectacularly at the boxoffice on its way to the video pound.

Spade, who co-wrote the uneven, scattershot screenplay with newcomers J.B. Cook and Marc Meeks, does not dominate onscreen like his wilder former partner, the late Chris Farley. In fact, he flounders in "Lost and Found" as a wimpy, ready-for-love restaurateur who dognaps his neighbor's (Marceau) cairn terrier and puts on a halfway sincere nice-guy act to get her attention.

Spade, as supercilious Dylan, rarely breaks a sweat or musses his long hair. Playing too soft and smug a character, he is the weak backbone of the movie, with little help from the supporting players and uninspired comic situations. Part romantic comedy with "There's Something About Mary" aspirations and part nasty adolescent gagfest, "Lost" succeeds at being neither.

The low humor gets down to the level of graphic dog poop jokes, and the pairing of Spade and Marceau is not even remotely incendiary. From the always-gets-a-laugh gag of a mutt banged up and fluffed out in the dryer to Dylan's strip poker-playing old lady neighbors, "Lost" has a few good laughs and too many doggone cliches.

Recently single Dylan has to endure the slavish loyalty and home invasion of corpulent, grubby employee Wally (Artie Lange), who dresses like the lead and helps him woo Lila (Marceau), a professional cellist forced to teach ungrateful kids and play for oblivious shoppers in malls while waiting for a dream gig in the philharmonic.

Lila is not long out of France, and her handsome but bullheaded ex-boyfriend Rene (Patrick Bruel) is trying to win her back. She ignores Dylan at first, but through a series of calculated noble gestures and well-timed assistance -- after he's locked up her four-legged Houdini of a pet, Jack, in his apartment -- they become romantically involved.

Occasionally a scene will click, but the main conflict is prolonged by Jack apparently swallowing the engagement ring of Mark (Mitchell Whitfield), Dylan's best friend. Lucky Wally is put in charge of checking regularly for the item, given to Dylan for safekeeping, in the wily dog's poop.

In the dragged-out climax, Dylan caters a party given by a no-nonsense bank president (Martin Sheen) and impresses everyone but the viewer with his lip-synching and live singing of Neil Diamond's "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show." Does Dylan get the girl back? Do they find the ring in time?

LOST AND FOUND

Warner Bros.

Alcon Entertainment presents

A Wayne Rice/Dinamo Entertainment production

Director: Jeff Pollack

Screenwriters: J.B. Cook, Marc Meeks, David Spade

Producers: Wayne Rice, Morrie Eisenman, Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson

Director of photography: Paul Elliott

Production designer: Rusty Smith

Editor: Christopher Greenbury

Costume designer: Susan Bertram

Music: John Debney

Casting: Jackie Burch

Color/stereo

Cast:

Dylan: David Spade

Lila: Sophie Marceau

Rene: Patrick Bruel

Wally: Artie Lange

Mark: Mitchell Whitfield

Millstone: Martin Sheen

Running time -- 99 minutes

MPAA rating: PG-13...

Such is the cauldron of deathly woe in this scrumptious, meticulous murder mystery. Starring French pop singer Patrick Bruel, ''La Maison Assassinee'' (The Murdered House) should do tres bon business on the art-house circuit.

Crafted and constructed with jarring delicacy, ''La Maison Assassinee'' is at once a beguiling murder mystery as well as an entrancing psychological portrait of a small, French provincial town, circa 1920. It's a keen study in group behavior and peer dynamics as magnified by a brutal crime and a catastrophic war.

In this engrossing drama, young Seraphin Monge (Bruel) finds his return home to his village of birth an unsettling experience. Orphaned as a youngster and then conscripted into the service, the young man has had, essentially, no personal life and knows nothing of his parents.

With his return to the village, he senses the edginess and hostility of the townfolk. Monge soon learns the terrible circumstances of their unease, in particular their avoidance of his family's once-proud mansion where the bloody, throat-slitting massacre of his parents occurred. His return has opened the bucolic village's deepest scar -- the truth of what happened on that murderous night.

While the local girls flock to him -- he is the only eligible young man to survive the war -- the villagers ostracize him. Finally, Monge, too, feels he must expunge his past, by tearing down his parents' home, stone by stone. In his cleansing fury, he comes upon a piece of evidence that clues him to the real murderers.

But revenge, in his case, will not be entirely sweet. He has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the perpetrators, and, as befits a small town, there are other difficult personal entanglements.

Based on a novel by Pierre Magnan, ''La Maison Assassinee'' is a magnificently crafted mystery. Adapters Georges Lautner and Jacky Caukier have wound the narrative in, seemingly, a series of climactic knots. Just as Monge (and, by extension, the viewer) thinks he has the truth all neatly tied, the narrative slips free and loops around an even more credible and disarming probability.

Credit director Georges Lautner for the firm and delicious pacing and the terrific technical team for the subtle and powerful textures. Cinematographer Yves Rodallec's muted tones and editor Michelle David's bold cuts portend the deep and dark complexities coursing through this film.

LA MAISON ASSASSINEE

Morris Projects Inc.

Producer Alain Poire

Director Georges Lautner

Based on a novel by Pierre Magnan

Screen adaptation Georges Lautner, Jacky Caukier

Dialogue Didier von Cauwelaert

Director of photography Yves Rodallec

Art director Chantal Giullani

Costume designerManka Guezel

Editor Michelle David

Sound mixer Jean-Paul Loublier

Color/Stereo

Cast:

Seraphin Monge Patrick Bruel

Marie Dormeur Anne Brochet

Rose Pujol Agnes Blanchot

Charmaine Dupin Ingrid Held

Patrice DupinYann Collette

Celestat Dormeur Jean-Pierre Sentier

Zorme Roger Jendly

Running time -- 113 minutes

No MPAA rating

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