The King of Paris
Synopsis
"The King of Paris", for the theatre world in 1930, is the illustrious actor Victor Derval. Safely enthroned at the top of the theatre bills, Derval has lorded it over the Paris boulevards for the past ten years and is one of Parisian high society's most courted celebrities. Derval has a son, Paul, who lives in an attic room in his father's house. Paul, aged 20, is tormented soul who views this stranger, his father, with an uneasy mix of fascination and scorn...
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Director (1)
Actors (26)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Rio
- Co-production : TCA Production
- Foreign production company : Adventure Pictures
- Film exports/foreign sales : Mac Guffin Distribution
- French distribution : Pierre Grise Distribution
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Jean Gontier
- Screenwriters : Bernard Minoret, Jérôme Tonnerre, Dominique Maillet, Jacques Fieschi
- Director of Photography : Bernard Lutic
- Music Composer : Quentin Damamme
- Assistant directors : Patrick Boshart, Gabriel Julien-Laferrière
- Editor : Marie Castro
- Sound recordists : Michel Desrois, François Groult
- Costume designer : Christian Gasc
- Line Producer : Yann Gilbert
- Sound Assistant : Jean-Michel Chauvet
- Assistant Operators : Alain Ducousset, Christophe Paturange
- Production Manager : Nicolas Daguet
- Press Attaché (film) : Michèle Latraverse
- Sound Editor : Françoise Coispeau
- Production Designer : Jacques Rouxel
- Foley artist : Marie-Jeanne Wyckmans
- Still Photographer : Joanne Delaporte
- Location Manager : Eric Bensoussan
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Great Britain, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Great Britain, France)
- Production year : 1994
- French release : 11/01/1995
- Runtime : 1 h 37 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 73.079
- Visa issue date : 05/10/1994
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
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"At times, life can be subject to what people call chance or fate. Linear progression can suddenly be marked by elements that seem to support your work. I experienced this several times during production of "The king of Paris", most notably when I was looking for a location for the false grave of Paul Derval (Manuel Blanc in the film), that I decided to film in the Montmartre cemetery in Paris. My assistant and I were walking along the numerous pathways of the cemetery when I spotted an area that was ideally suited to my camera angles. Then , as we were heading back towards the cemetery office, I stopped all of a sudden at a neighbouring plot. I can't say why my attention was drawn to it since it was identical to the other graves around. Yet I was stunned to discover the inscription on the grave-stone : Paul Derval, manager of the Folies Bergères... A man with the same name as my character who, like him, belonged to the show-business world at the turn of the century... After that, I wouldn't have changed location for the whole world..."
(Dominique Maillet)
