Bernie
Synopsis
A 30-year-old frustrated and neurotic orphan leaves the orphanage where he had stayed on to work having turned 18. His goal... to find out the true facts of his birth. Faced with the authorities refusal to give him his dossier, he burgles the social welfare office and... discovers the terrifying truth: He was found in a bin, probably dumped by his parents. Unable to accept this version he concocts another somewhat more fabulous scenario: His parents had fallen victim to a Mafia plot. He had been kidnapped and dumped in a garbage chute. Today, his parents are still alive... they need his help!
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (22)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Rezo Productions
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, Kasso Inc. Productions, Ulysse Films, Caroline Production, Contre Prod.
- French distribution : Rezo Films
Full credits (21)
- Executive Producers : Jean-Michel Rey, Philippe Liégeois
- Adaptation : Albert Dupontel
- Screenwriters : Albert Dupontel, Gilles Laurent
- Director of Photography : Guillaume Schiffman
- Music Composer : Ramon Pipin
- Assistant directors : Hubert Barbin, Alain Baudy
- Editor : Juliette Welfling
- Sound Recordist : Jacques Pibarot
- Costume designer : Chattoune
- Sound Assistant : Michel Bensaïd
- Assistant Operator : Guillaume Génini
- Camera Operator : Guillaume Schiffman
- Production Manager : Jean-Louis Godfroy
- Press Attaché (film) : Laura Gouadain
- Sound editors : Sylvain Lasseur, Frédéric Attal
- Assistant editors : Valérie Deseine, Marcela Figueroa
- Continuity supervisor : Claudine Zidi
- Production Designer : Laurent Allaire
- Casting : Antoinette Boulat
- Sound mixers : Hervé Buirette, François Groult
- Still Photographer : Éric Caro
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1996
- French release : 27/11/1996
- Runtime : 1 h 27 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 88.891
- Visa issue date : 24/10/1996
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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Delegations (1)
Rendez-Vous With French Cinema à New York
United States, 1997
Director : Albert Dupontel
Actor : Claude Perron
About
"Gilles Laurent (co-screenwriter) and I had wanted to build a story around the quest for identity, while keeping the slant "social", in the concrete sense of the word. Bernie is a neurotic character who for thirty years has been asking himself who he is and where he comes from. At first, he's got few keys at his disposal with which to understand the outside world, even more so given that his orphanage was in the country. But he has his ways, his logic; he's really instinctive. He musters a desperate and pathetic effort to understand life. Which is why he invents a better world from scratch, and his own American thriller style story. So, I could sum up "Bernie" in one sentence: "A frustrated being transforms the tragedy of his birth into an American-style thriller". What human being could accept the fact of such rejection at birth? None. So from that moment on Bernie turns his life into a movie, a naïve puerile fiction worthy of a cartoon strip. He's a chunk of childhood in an adult's body."
(Albert Dupontel)
