Monday 6 January saw filming kick off on L’Affaire Bojarski, Jean-Paul Salomé’s tenth feature, after Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre, Arsène Lupin (nominated for the Best Wardrobe César in 2005), Female Agents [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jean-Paul Salomé
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Stealing focus up front in the cast are Reda Kateb (nominated for the 2018 and 2020 Best Actor Césars thanks to Django [+leggi anche:
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Q&A: Etienne Comar
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intervista: Hubert Charuel
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intervista: Arnaud e Jean-Marie Larrieu
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intervista: Dominik Moll
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intervista: Emmanuel Courcol
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Likewise in on the action are Camille Japy (hitting cinemas on 5 March via In the Nguyen Kitchen [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Stéphane Ly-Cuong
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intervista: Nadav Lapid
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Written by the director together with Bastien Daret based on an original idea by Marie-Pierre Huster, the story charts how young Polish refugee Jan Bojarski became the biggest counterfeiter of all time, the "Cézanne of fake money", in post-war France; how, for over fifteen years and unbeknownst to his family, this man led a double life making counterfeit money - which was “more real” than the notes printed by the Bank of France - in a shed at the bottom of his garden; and how, in all these years, this unparalleled faker managed to slip through the police’s net to become the thorn in Commissioner Mattei’s side, over the course of a hunt which fast turned into a duel for these two obsessives…

L’Affaire Bojarski is being produced by Bertrand Faivre on behalf of Le Bureau and by Florence Gastaud for Les Compagnons du Cinéma, in co-production with France 2 Cinéma, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Cactus Prod and Belgium’s Artemis Productions. Pre-purchased by Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, BeTV and Proximus, the feature film also enjoys support from the Île-de-France region, as well as from the SOFICA companies Indéfilms, Palatine Etoile and Cofinova. The 43-day film shoot, beginning 6 January and ending 7 March, is unfolding in Paris and the surrounds, as well as in Vichy and in Lyon, with Julien Hirsch (awarded the 2007 César in his category for Lady Chatterley [+leggi anche:
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For the record, Le Bureau will also be releasing Fabienne Godet’s Le répondeur [+leggi anche:
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