Charité Biz'ness
Synopsis
Samir and Maurice sell stolen stereos for a living. One day things turn sour and they are sentenced to one year of community work in kid’s clubs. Once they’re through that, Christiane, the local social worker, suggests that they help out with a charity concert which her uncle, the mayor, is organizing. Their performance at the concert is a farce and culminates in a full-scale fireworks show that lands them behind bars. During their stay in jail, the idea for a new line of business dawns on them. They decide top set up a charity concert, for their own benefit. Charity Biz’ness hits the road...
Credits
Actors (22)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Ice 3
- Co-production : TF1 Films Production
- Film exports/foreign sales : Newen Connect a TF1 Group Company
- French distribution : AMLF
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producers : Louis Becker, Thierry Lhermitte
- Screenwriters : Jean-Michel Aubray, Clarisse Guilbert, Nicolas Cuche
- Director of Photography : Norbert Marfaing-Sintès
- Music Composer : Philippe Kelly
- Assistant directors : Alain Olivieri, Jean-André Silvestro
- Editor : Nathalie Hubert
- Sound Recordist : Vincent Tulli
- Costume designer : Martine Rapin
- Sound Assistant : Emmanuel Ughetto
- Press Attaché (film) : François Hassan Guerrar
- Assistant editor : Margot Meynier
- Continuity supervisor : Florence Bodin-Joyeux
- Production Designer : Richard Cahours De Virgile
- Sound mixers : Thierry Lebon, Vincent Arnardi
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 26/08/1998
- Runtime : 1 h 25 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 89.416
- Visa issue date : 29/07/1998
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
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About
Charité Biz’ness is an unpretentious, light-hearted, picturesque movie with a very cartoonish spirit. I make films for the audience, not for the critics and Sam, the character I play, is a cool guy, a smart, streetwise downtown dandy.
(Smaïn, excerpt from press kit)
In my career, I’ve always tried to do one thing: make people laugh. Massipu is a ridiculous but touching character. I work by intuition, mostly. For instance, when I create a character for my “Small Ads”, I’ve no idea how he’s going to behave. But as soon as I’m in costume and made up, his voice and behavior come to me.
(Elie Semoun, excerpt from press kit)
