It is the story of a time when it was not majors, but men who produced films. Enthusiasts who, following their instincts, took all the risks, starting with Jean-Pierre Rassam and Claude Berri.
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From 1960 to 2000, they sometimes hit the jackpot and would have deserved, in their time, to also win to be recognized by the public. Michel Denisot (with Florent Maillet) fills this gap in a documentary telling the story of an authentic family of the seventh art. Claude was married to Anne-Marie, Jean-Pierre's sister. They are at the origin of feature films that have become classics, including La Grande Bouffe, Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble or Tchao Pantin. Their backgrounds are complementary, but their characters are very different. Jean-Pierre Rassam experienced palace life, arrivals in Rolls on the Croisette before sinking into drugs and disappearing at the age of 44. For his part, Claude Berri invested the money earned in contemporary art.
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Paul Rassam, Jean-Pierre's brother, speaks for the first time in this documentary film The Rassam-Berri saga, cinema in the veins, which is also in selection at the Cannes Film Festival. The man, who has lived in the United States and financed, among others, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, played an essential role: to support Dimitri Rassam, whose mother Carole Bouquet is, and Thomas Langmann (Berri's son), to take over.
