SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS
synopsis
Famous news radio station R2I sends its best duo of reporters – journalist Frank and sound engineer Poussin – to Iraq. Very soon, millions of listeners are following their well-researched, "on-the-spot" reports, reflecting the intensity of the conflict and the difficult survival of the population. The day Frank and Poussin are taken as hostages, a large-scale solidarity movement is organised to secure their release: rallied around the slogan "a euro for our hostages", there is a mass mobilisation of French people. But the major concern for Frank and Poussin, our two very special correspondents, is not really the hostage-taking: their true problem is that they’ve never set foot in Iraq, and the breathless reports that have made them famous are recorded from the Barbes area of Paris.
international title: | Special Correspondents |
original title: | Envoyés très speciaux |
country: | France |
year: | 2009 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Frédéric Auburtin |
release date: | BE 21/01/2009, FR 21/01/2009 |
screenplay: | Simon Michaël, Jacques Labib |
cast: | Gérard Lanvin, Gérard Jugnot, Omar Sy, Anne Marivin, Valérie Kaprisky, Serge Hazanavicius |
cinematography by: | Pierre Aïm |
film editing: | Béatrice Herminie |
art director: | Jean-Luc Raoul |
costumes designer: | Karen Muller Serreau |
music: | Jean-Yves d'Angelo |
producer: | Manuel Munz |
production: | Les Films Manuel Munz |
distributor: | EuropaCorp Distribution, Victory Production (BE) |