| DIRECTOR: |
Jacques Audiard |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Alain Le Henry, Jacques
Audiard |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Jean-Marc Fabre |
| EDITION: |
Juliette Welfling |
| MUSIC: |
Alexandre Desplat |
| CAST: |
Matthieu Kassovitz, Anouk
Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain, Nadia Barentin,
Albert Dupontel, Bernard Bloch |
| PRODUCER: |
Patrick Goudeau |
| FESTIVALS: |
Cannes |
| PRODUCTION: |
Aliceleo
1 Quai Gabriel Peri - 94340 - Joinville-le-Pont
Tel.: 00 33 1 4397-6800
Fax: 00 33 1 4397-6801 |
| WORLD SALES: |
UGC D.A.
24 Avenue Charles de Gaulle - 92200 - Neuilly
Tel: 00 33 1 4640-4400
Fax: 00 33 1 4640-3728 |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
Un Héros Trés Discret |
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Col., 105 min., 1996 |
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absurdities
of war are the starting point for this story inspired in
the novel by Jean-François Deniau. The action takes
place in France, in the last year of World War II, when
it was impossible to tell truth from lies. It is within
this scenario that a young man decides to make a change
in life. The son of a collaborator, later married to a
wealthy girl, he decides to become a war hero by creating
an admirable past for himself, very different from his
true reality. He leaves the city where he lives and goes
to Paris where he embarks on his trajectory of lies and
illusion in which he becomes a character out of the
common. He manages to infiltrate into the Resistance and
devises a dangerous game to reconstruct his past. He soon
attains a high position in the French occupation zone in
Germany. With ability and persistence, he passes himself
off as somebody else, and earns himself all of what he
never 