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Vincent Rottiers and Kevin Azaïs to topline Frères d'arme

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- The two actors play the leads in Sylvain Labrosse’s feature debut, which is set to start shooting soon and is being produced by La Vie est Belle and Oriflamme

Vincent Rottiers and Kevin Azaïs to topline Frères d'arme
Actors Vincent Rottiers and Kevin Azaïs

Next month will see the start of the shoot for Frères d'arme [+see also:
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, the feature debut by Sylvain Labrosse, which will be produced by France together with Serbia and Montenegro. Having turned heads with his short films La fosse rouge (national competition at Clermont-Ferrand in 2002) and Virage Nord (Directors’ Fortnight in 1996), the filmmaker has pulled off quite a coup by securing two rising stars for his cast, in the guise of half-brothers Vincent Rottiers (nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2007 and 2010, nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2016 for Dheepan [+see also:
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, popular recently in Toril [+see also:
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, and soon to grace screens in La part sauvage and Espèces menacées) and Kevin Azaïs (César Award for Most Promising Actor and Lumière Award for Best New Actor in 2015 for Love at First Fight [+see also:
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, putting on fine performances last year in Souvenir [+see also:
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, The Young One [+see also:
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and A Taste of Ink [+see also:
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, which earned him the Best Actor Award at Stockholm in November), who will appear together on the big screen for the first time.

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Written by the director with contributions from Stéphane Schoukroun, Agnès Caffin (Very Well, Thank You [+see also:
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, La Taularde [+see also:
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), Romain Cole and Aurélien Deschamps, the story revolves around Emil and his brother, Stanko, who have something in common: they both remember a terrible event that happened when they were children in Montenegro. Both are now immigrants in France: Emil moves in with his friend Gabrielle, while Stanko attempts to climb the ladder on the fringes of lawfulness, in the world of gambling and cock fighting. Anna, their mother, who has never forgotten her home country, dreams of going back to Montenegro as a family. The arrival of Larkos, their uncle, who has finally been released from prison and is over the moon to be reunited with his first love, will catalyse events and the inevitable confrontation... 

Produced by Céline Maugis for La Vie est Belle and Christophe Delsaux for Oriflamme FilmsFrères d'arme also sees the involvement of Miroslav Mogorovic for Serbian outfit Art and Popcorn and Ivan Djurovic for Montenegrin company Artikulacija Film. Co-produced by Olivier Bourbeillon for Paris-Brest Productions, the feature is also being backed by the Brittany and Pays de la Loire regions, the Breizh Film Fund and Media Development. The development of the project was supported by Backup Media, the Procirep and the Angoa, as part of ACE and EAVE. The five-week shoot will take place during April and May in Brest and Nantes. The French distribution is under negotiation, while the international sales are being handled by Be For Films

For the record, La Vie est Belle and Oriflamme Films previously joined forces to produce Insecure [+see also:
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by Marianne Tardieu (unveiled at Cannes in 2014, on the alternative ACID programme, and subsequently screened at Karlovy Vary, in the Variety Critics’ Choice). La Vie est Belle also recently produced The Duchess of Warsaw [+see also:
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by Joseph Morder (presented at the Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing Film Festivals, and set to be released in Taiwanese theatres on 7 April – sold by Caravan Pass) and co-produced The Apostate [+see also:
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by Federico Veiroj (Special Jury Mention and Fipresci Award at San Sebastián in 2015).

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(Translated from French)

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