Executive Producer : Patrick Godeau
Director : Claude Chabrol
Assistant Director : Cécile Maistre
Screenwriters : Odile Barski, Claude Chabrol
Line Producer : Françoise Galfrè
Actors : Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand, Patrick Bruel, Robin Renucci, Marilyne Canto, Thomas Chabrol, Jean-François Balmer, Pierre Vernier, Jacques Boudet, Philippe Duclos, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Roger Dumas, Yves Verhoeven, Stéphane Debac, Jean-Marie Juan, Raphaël Neal, Michèle Goddet, Sophie Guiter, Jean-Marie Winling
Director of Photography : Eduardo Serra
Sound Recordist : Pierre Lenoir
Production Manager : Michel Jullien
Press Attaché (film) : Eva Simonet
Editor : Monique Fardoulis
Continuity supervisor : Aurore Chabrol
Production Designer : Françoise Benoît-Fresco
Music Composer : Matthieu Chabrol
Costume Designer : Mic Cheminal
Sound Mixers : Thierry Lebon, Vincent Cosson

Co-production : France 2 Cinéma, Ajoz Films
Foreign production company : Integral Films
Associate production company : Alicéleo
French distribution : Wild Bunch Distribution
Film export/Foreign Sales : Wild Bunch

ALBANIA : Tuck
Released N/A

Argentina : Alfa Films
Released 7/20/06

Australia : Palace Film
Released 12/1/06

Austria : Constantin Film
Released 7/21/06

Belgium : Les Films de l'Elysée
Released 3/15/06

BOSNIA : Tuck
Released N/A

Brazil : Imagem Filmes
Released 6/7/07

Chile : MCFilms
Released 10/26/06

Croatia : Tuck
Released N/A

Denmark : Sunrise Film Distribution
Released 3/31/07

Finland : Nonstop Entertainment
Released N/A

Germany : Concorde Filmverleih
Released 7/20/06

Italy : Bim Distribuzione
Released 10/5/06

Mexico : Cinemas Nueva Era
Released 2/16/07

Netherlands : Paradiso Entertainment - Pays-bas
Released 6/22/06

Norway : Nonstop Entertainment
Released N/A

Portugal : Lusomundo
Released 5/18/06

QUEBEC (MONTREAL-QUEBEC) : Metropole Distribution
Released 3/3/07

Slovenia : Ljubljanski Kinematografi
Released 6/30/06

Spain : Wanda Films
Released 5/11/07

Sweden : Nonstop Entertainment
Released 4/13/07

Switzerland : JMH Distribution
Released 2/16/06

United Kingdom : ICA Films Limited
Released 12/14/07

USA : Koch Lorber films
Released 1/5/07

Venezuela : Blanco y Traviesa
Released N/A

Yugoslavia : Tuck
Released 1/18/07

Romania : IF - Independenta Film
Released N/A

Feature film, Fiction , Drama
Production language : French
Nationality : Majority French (France, Germany)
Production year : 2005
French release : 22/02/2006
Runtime : 1h 50mn
Current status : Released
Visa issue date : 27/12/2005
Approval : Yes
Production formats : 35mm
Screening format : 35mm
Color type : Color
Aspect ratio : 1.85
Sound format : Dolby SRD
Official website : www.livressedupouvoir.com/

Jeanne Charmant Killman, an examining magistrate, must sort out and prepare for judgment a complex case of misappropriation and embezzlement of public funds implicating the president of an important industrial firm. As her investigation and interrogations progress, she realizes that her power grows: the more she delves into secrets, the more her means of applying pressure increase. However, at the same time, and for the same reasons, her private life becomes more fragile.
Soon she’ll be asking herself two fundamental questions. Until what point can she continue to increase this power without clashing with a power greater than her own? Until what point can human nature resist the intoxication of this power?
Perhaps it will break her in two.

Comedy of Power by Claude Chabrol (L’Ivresse du pouvoir, 2006, 110 min.). Inspired by the experiences of Judge Eva Joly—whose 7-year investigation into fraud and bribery at the French oil company Elf Aquitaine uncovered a web of corruption—Claude Chabrol’s latest film delves into unspoken class issues in French society. Judge Jeanne Charmant-Killman (Isabelle Huppert) is known in the French judicial system as "the piranha," and with good reason. A powerful examining magistrate, Jeanne has recently sanctioned the arrest of CEO Michel Humeau (François Berléand). But what she does not realize is that his company’s scandal has tentacles that reach into the government and its dealings with African nations. When she goes too far with her investigation, her life is turned upside down as she uncovers more corruption than she bargained for. Description adapted from the Tribeca Film Festival.

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