30/09/2002

September 2000, Wall Street gives a warm New York welcome to a new world media and communications colossus, France’s Vivendi Universal, come to challenge the Americans on their home ground.
June 2002, the giant is on the edge of the precipice and its enormous debts cause the fall of its star C.E.O. Jean-Marie Messier. From that moment on, fire fighter Jean-René Fourtou, summoned to save the situation, tries to pull VU out of the deadly downward spiral that threatens to affect the entire French and European film industry. An authentic saga that not even the most imaginative and experienced screenwriter could ever have imagined and which Cineuropa attempts to synthesise here.