05/02/2013 - Imminent filming for Thomas Lilti’s second feature film, also featuring Jacques Gamblin, Reda Kateb and Félix Moati. A 31 Juin Films production

The filming of Thomas Lilti’s second feature film Hippocrate will begin Monday, February 11^th. Noticed in 2008 with Les yeux bandés [+see also:
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interview: Edouard Deluc
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film profile], and recently tortured in the opening of the international movie Zero Dark Thirty), Félix Moati (nominated as Best Male Newcomer at the 2013 Césars for Télé Gaucho [+see also:
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Written by the director with Baya Kasmi, Pierre Chosson and Julien Lilti, the screenplay focuses on Benjamin (Lacoste), an ambitious and very self-confident medical student. For his first internship, he joins his father’s team (Gamblin). And then, of course, nothing goes the way he expected. He is confronted by his own limits, his fears, those of his patients and their families, the doctors and his colleagues. He then embarks on an initiatory journey... 

Produced by Agnès Vallée and Emmanuel Barraux for 31 Juin Films, Hippocrate benefits from a France 2 Cinéma coproduction, pre-purchases by Canal+ and Ciné+, an advance on receipts from the CNC and the support of Sofica Manon and Palatine Etoile. Filming will take place over 37 days in the Ile-de-France region and end on April 5^th. Le Pacte will handle both French distribution and international sales.  

(Translated from French)