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.
Directed by Jacques Fansten
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Cast
Tchéky Karyo
Bertrand
Robin Renucci
Maurice
Xavier Deluc
Michel
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Romain
François Cluzet
Pierrot
Sandrine Dumas
Marie Lampert
Nathalie Nell
Martine
Zabou Breitman
Hélène
Martine Sarcey
Mme Favart
Jean-Paul Roussillon
Arnolli
Michel Berto
Un fonctionnaire
Bernard Freyd
Gambier
Marilyne Canto
Catherine
Jean Lescot
Un fonctionnaire
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