CLASS ACT
| 2023 – 7 x 52′ – Series – Biopic, Drama
Written by: Olivier Demangel, Tristan Séguéla, Thomas Finkielkraut, Jean-Baptiste Delafon, Clémence Madeleine-Perdrillat, Alix Delaporte.
Directed by: Tristan Séguéla.
Starring: Laurent Lafitte (Bernard Tapie), Joséphine Japy (Dominique), Ophelia Kolb (Michèle), Camille Chamoux (Nicole Le Carré), Samuel Labarthe (François Mitterrand), Roberto Calvet (Jean-Jacques Eydelie), David Talbot (Eric de Montgolfier), Patrick D’Assumçao (Jean-Baptiste Tapie), Stéphane Pézérat (Serge Picot), Fabrice Luchini (Marcel Loiseau).
Official Competition TAFFF 2023.
In French with English subtitles.
A Netflix release. |
Consummate stage and screen actor, and member of the prestigious Comédie-Française, Laurent Lafitte brings controversial French businessman Bernard Tapie to delectable life in this seven-part highly-fictionalized biopic miniseries, recounting a blow-by-blow account of a colorful tycoon’s rise and fall. The relentlessly ambitious son of a plumber, Tapie’s enormous drive ultimately leads him to amass a fortune through numerous business interests, own a Tour de France cycling team and a major French football club, enter politics, become a successful actor and television personality, and hold a major stake in Adidas… before being convicted of tax fraud and serving time in prison. Despite the heavy measure of fiction, which led Tapie’s widow to decry the series, the result is a diverting rags-to-riches tale of an infamous figure brimming with charm, smarm and a heaping dose of chutzpah.