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LUCKY STAR

by Pascal Elbé

synopsis

France, 1940. Jean Chevalin, a somewhat cowardly trickster, never meant to desert the army. He just got a bit scared... and somehow ended up back home without the faintest idea how to fix the mess. With the Nazis closing in, Jean quickly realizes that his sleight-of-hand tricks won't cut it this time. Desperate to protect his wife and his eight-year-old son, he hatches a wildly ridiculous plan: change their identities and pretend to be Jews, hoping this brilliant idea will help them slip past the soldiers and reach the Free Zone. It sounds genius... for about five minutes. Before long, everything spirals out of control. The family gets swept up in a perilous (and completely unplanned) adventure, recruited by the Resistance, and discovers the hard way that solidarity and empathy are a lot messier than they look on paper. As the chaos snowballs, Jean must figure out if he's brave enough to do the right thing—without digging himself an even deeper hole ; it's going to take a miracle.

international title: Lucky Star
original title: La Bonne Étoile
country: France, Belgium
sales agent: Studio TF1 Distribution
year: 2025
genre: fiction
directed by: Pascal Elbé
film run: 103'
release date: FR 12/11/2025, BE 12/11/2025, CH 12/11/2025
screenplay: Pascal Elbé
cast: Benoît Poelvoorde, Audrey Lamy, Pascal Elbé, Zabou Breitman, Louis Lagorce Douce-Doussière, Pierre Poirot, Camille Sagols, Romy Baratin Forest, Emmanuelle Lepoutre, Jeanne Rosa
cinematography by: Gilles Henry
film editing: Virginie Bruant
art director: Jean-Marc Tran Tan Ba
costumes designer: Joana Georges Rossi
music: Valentin Couineau, Romain Allender
producer: Yann Zenou
co-producer: Pascal Elbé
production: Quad Films/Quad Cinéma/Splendido/Yume/YZE, UGC, France 3 Cinéma, Père et Films, Scope Pictures
distributor: UGC Distribution, Cinéart, Pathé Films AG

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