A Self Made Hero
Synopsis
In the final months of a war that he hasn't fought, in the alien Paris of winter 1944/45, a man decides to become a hero. Or rather to impersonate a hero... to invent a better, richer and more admirable life than the one he has. He becomes a virtuoso liar and, via omissions and allusions, builds up a remarkable character. This man, who is in fact someone else and who had nothing, will obtain everything : honours, admiration, friendship, power, love... but for how long...
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Director (1)
Actors (29)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Alicéleo
- Co-productions : Initial Productions, M6 Films, Lumière International, France 3 Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : AFMD
Full credits (20)
- Executive Producer : Patrick Godeau
- Screenwriters : Jacques Audiard, Alain Le Henry
- Director of Photography : Jean-Marc Fabre
- Music Composer : Alexandre Desplat
- Assistant directors : Olivier Coutard, Serge Onteniente
- Editor : Juliette Welfling
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Pierre Duret
- Costume designer : Caroline De Vivaise
- Author of original work : Jean-François Deniau
- Executive Producer : Françoise Galfrè
- Assistant Operators : Sophie Cadet, Laurent Hincelin
- Production manager : Catherine Lapoujade
- Press Attachés (film) : François Hassan Guerrar, Catherine Esway
- Sound Editor : Nicolas Naegelen
- Continuity supervisor : Claude Luquet
- Production Designer : Michel Vandestien
- Foley artist : François Lepeuple
- Casting : Serge Onteniente
- Sound Mixer : Dominique Gaborieau
- Still Photographer : Jean-Marie Leroy
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1996
- French release : 15/05/1996
- Runtime : 1 h 45 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 87.461
- Visa issue date : 18/04/1996
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
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"(...) I think is a tale of apprenticeship, the story of a child who enters adulthood. Someone who hasn't had a life and who treats himself to one in crash course. He has to make everything up, so he works, he learns, that's what's sympathetic about him : he's a worker. He isn't very intelligent, brave or ethical but, in the end, in a slightly twisted manner, he obtains some of those qualities."
(Interview with Jacques Audiard by Marie-Noëlle Tranchant - Le Figaro)
