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Release year: 2023

Storyline

Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir from powerful French family. Troubled by this candidate, Pove embarks on an investigation that is as surprising as it is jubilant.

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Directors

Albert Dupontel

Writers

Cast

Cécile de France — Nathalie Pove
Albert Dupontel — Pierre-Henry Mercier, Sventu
Nicolas Marié — Gus
Uri Gavriel — Lior Davon

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Did you know

• Albert Dupontel dedicated this movie to three people: * Bertrand Tavernier, a French director and movie lover, who was giving him lists of movies to watch right until his death; * Jean-Paul Belmondo, an iconic French actor whose "joie de vivre" greatly impressed him; * Michel Deville, a French director who cast him in his movie, La maladie de Sachs (1999), and thus gave him value as an actor, after the release of Dupontel's first movie, Bernie (1996), made Dupontel feel depressed and outcast in the French movie business.

• Albert Dupontel was inspired by Bobby Kennedy for President (2018) to make this movie, particularly Bobby Kennedy's Indianapolis speech when he announces the death of Martin Luther King. In it, he saw the emotional power of an improvised, yet sincere political speech, and wondered "What if Robert Kennedy had said nothing about his true political and social aspirations?". His heroic and resigned determination was the starting point for the creation of the character of Pierre-Henry Mercier.

• The character of Gus was written specifically for Nicolas Marié, making it his eighth collaboration with Albert Dupontel as director.