After politics, Eric Benzekri and Ziad Doueiri, screenwriter and director of
Baron Noir respectively
,
tackle communication.
A project all the more exciting as it takes place in the world of football, rarely discussed in French fiction - we remember
Virage Nord,
from happy memory, on Arte -, and a football in the midst of a media scandal with spin doctors at stake.
There is no doubt that they will be able to breathe into this series in 6 x 52 minutes for Canal +, whose filming will begin on March 13 for four months in Paris, in the Paris region and in Dijon, the same authenticity as in fiction with Kad Merad .
An extremely documented work on the merits - Eric Benzekri was from the seraglio.
And realistic in form.
"
I chose to favor a moving camera to make the dialogues more fluid and sets that avoid clichés, especially for scenes shot in institutions
," said Ziad Doueiri at the time.
I stayed close to the actors, as if we were inside the characters' heads.
The watchword was energy.
»
Round ball
The comedians ?
Nina Meurisse (seen in
Mixte
and
Cœurs noirs
on Prime Video), Ana Girardot (
Les Revenants,
La Flamme
) and Benjamin Biolay (
Rebecca
), more and more present on the small screen and whose taste for football is known.
The pitch?
"
As at the end of each Ligue 1 season, the great French football family is celebrating its heroes: smiles, selfies, awards – it's UNFP Trophy night.
Everything changes when in front of the cameras, Fodé Thiam, the star of Racing, gives a violent headbutt to his trainer and calls him "dirty toubab". "Toubab" means "white" in Wolof.
Stunning: the media storm can begin.
Called to the club's bedside, Sam Berger, a talented communicator but devoured by her hypersensitivity, feels that this time the crisis will not be swept away by a new, more selling scandal... ".
This original Canal + creation is produced by Quad, to whom we owe
Vortex
or
Les Combattantes
.
