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Bookmark this pageUn Héros très discret (1995)
Director: Jacques Audiard
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Audiard's marvellous follow-up to his impressive Regarde les hommes tomber is a deliciously inventive comedy about a shy, cowardly, none-too-bright nobody (Kassovitz, director of La Haine) who through a mixture of luck, determination and downright lies manages to pass himself off as a WWII Resistance hero. It may be seen as a sly satire on France's illusions about its own wartime record, but more importantly it's a dazzlingly written, consistently funny, and finally very moving tale about identity, fame, storytelling and the way heroic acts often occur on the most intimate plane.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Jacques Audiard
Producer: Patrick Godeau
Cast: Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain, Albert Dupontel, Nadia Barentin, Jean-Louis Trintignant full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 106 mins
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