SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
by Guillaume de Fontenay
synopsis
1992, war is raging in what will become Ex-Yugoslavia. Paul is covering the siege of Sarajevo. Flamboyant dandy, loud mouth, adrenaline junkie, provocative cigar-smoker, Paul Marchand is the war correspondent archetype. Racing through Sniper's Alley in his white Ford, the Frenchman relentlessly tells the apathetic western world about the ongoing massacre . In a urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform. How much can he endure before he starts taking up arms?
| international title: | Sympathy for the Devil |
| original title: | Sympathie pour le diable |
| country: | France, Canada, Belgium |
| sales agent: | Charades |
| year: | 2019 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Guillaume de Fontenay |
| film run: | 100' |
| release date: | FR 27/11/2019, BE 27/11/2019 |
| screenplay: | Jean Barbe, Guillaume de Fontenay, Guillaume Vigneault |
| cast: | Elisa Lasowski, Niels Schneider, Ella Rumpf, Arieh Worthalter, Vincent Rottiers, Clément Métayer, Izudin Bajrović, Adnan Omerovic, Mirsad Ibisevic, Toussaint Colombani, Quentin Marteau |
| cinematography by: | Pierre Aïm |
| film editing: | Mathilde Van de Moortel |
| art director: | Sanda Popovac, Patric Valverde |
| costumes designer: | Sanja Dzeba, Céline Guignard |
| producer: | Pascal Bascaron, Nicole Robert, Jean-Yves Robin, Marc Stanimirovic |
| co-producer: | Amra Bakšić Čamo, Serge de Poucques, Frédéric Fiore, Sylvain Goldberg, Cédric Iland, Nadia Khamlichi, Adrian Politowski |
| line producer: | Adis Djapo, Ludovic Naar |
| production: | Monkey Pack Films, Nexus Factory, Logical Pictures - Logical Content Ventures, Go Films (CA) |
| distributor: | Rezo Films, Distri7 |