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Stolen service, Julie de Bona plays the match of a lifetime on TF1

2021-11-22T14:28:31.293Z


CRITICAL - the actress poignantly plays the role of tennis champion Isabelle Demongeot, seeking justice after being the victim of sexual violence. A TV movie not to be missed, this Monday, November 22 at 9:05 p.m. on TF1.


In 2005, the affair had turned the secret world of sport upside down.

For the first time, a champion revealed to have been the victim of sexual violence perpetrated by those around her.

Isabelle Demongeot claimed to have suffered for nine years, throughout her adolescence, the rapes of her tennis trainer.

Without telling anyone.

Totally under the control of this man.

The former French number 2 was one of the first sportswomen to have the courage to denounce sexual violence.

The grip of a man

Adapted from his eponymous book published in 2007, the TV movie

Service volé,

directed by Jérôme Foulon with the collaboration of Sophie Deschamps and Claire Lemaréchal, does not take long to get to the heart of the matter.

In August 1980, Isabelle Demongeot was 14 years old.

Young tennis prodigy, she won her first title of champion of France under the admiring gaze of her parents.

At the exit of the court, the young Tropézienne receives the congratulations of her trainer:

"If you are ready to give everything, we will all go very far.

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Source: lefigaro

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