Pozzo di Borgo and Salo at the premiere of Connected to Life in Paris, 2011 (Photo by Getty Images, Richard Bord/Getty Images)
French businessman Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, whose story inspired "Connected to Life" – one of the most successful French films of all time – has died in Marrakech, Morocco at the age of 72.
Pozzo di Borgo, who ran the Pomeree champagne company, was left paralyzed in all limbs after being injured in a parachuting accident in 1993. As a result, he fell into depression, from which he escaped thanks to the friendship he forged with Abdel Yasmin Salo, the Algerian therapist attached to him.
The story of friendship was at the center of Pozzo di Borgo's book "Second Wind", and later also of the documentary "Life and Death", especially the feature film "Connected to Life" by Olivia Nakache and Eric Toledano, which was a huge success around the world, in which Pozzo di Borgo Vessalo was portrayed by François Klose and Omar Sy.
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Since the release of "Connected to Life", remakes have been made in India, Argentina and the United States, and in Israel, where more than half a million people have watched the film, the story has also become a play at the Cameri Theater.
Nakash and Toledano wrote on Instagram that Pozzo Di Borgo had "changed their lives" as well as those of "many vulnerable people", describing him as a "brave, dignified, humble and warrior man" who "to know him all these years has been a rare privilege".
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