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In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is a television broadcaster; the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector, a tax man, the director of a cultural center, and a sociologist who is about to step into a ministerial position. Their interlocking lives are told in alternating vignettes over a four-year period, and the professions director Jacques Fansten has chosen for his main characters seem to be a comment on the media, education, budget or finance, the arts, and government bureaucracy under Socialist rule.Read moreLess
In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is a television broadcaster; the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector, a tax man, the director of a cultural center, and a sociologist who is about to step into a ministerial position. Their interlocking lives are told in alternating vignettes over a four-year period, and the professions director Jacques Fansten has chosen for his main characters seem to be a comment on the media, education, budget or finance, the arts, and government bureaucracy under Socialist rule.
The story
In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is a television broadcaster; the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector, a tax man, the director of a cultural center, and a sociologist who is about to step into a ministerial position. Their interlocking lives are told in alternating vignettes over a four-year period, and the professions director Jacques Fansten has chosen for his main characters seem to be a comment on the media, education, budget or finance, the arts, and government bureaucracy under Socialist rule.
Cast & crew
Tchéky KaryoBertrand
Robin RenucciMaurice
Xavier DelucMichel
Jean-Pierre BacriRomain
François CluzetPierrot
Sandrine DumasMarie Lampert
Nathalie NellMartine
Zabou BreitmanHélène
Martine SarceyMme Favart
Jean-Paul RoussillonArnolli
Michel BertoUn fonctionnaire
Bernard FreydGambierExplore the crew
- Director
- Jacques Fansten
- Producer
- Claude Zidi
- Writer
- Jacques Fansten
- Producer
- Marie-Dominique Girodet
- Original Music Composer
- Jean-Marie Sénia
- Editor
- Nicole Saunier
- Director of Photography
- Dominique Chapuis