02/01/2017 - The director reunites Kad Merad, Kacey Mottet-Klein and Sylvie Testud in the cast. A film being produced by Moteur S’il Vous Plaît and Fin Août Production

The first clapperboard slammed today on the set of Kings for a Day [+see also:
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film profile] (which was notably selected for the New Filmmakers section of San Sebastián in 2009) and Les Conquérants [+see also:
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film profile] (2013). The cast for this social comedy features Kad Merad (who won the 2007 César for Best Supporting Actor for Don’t Worry, I’m Fine [+see also:
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interview: Guillaume Senez ­
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
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Q&A: André Téchiné
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Written by the director and Frédéric Chansel, the screenplay centres around a man who, to avoid being kicked out of his apartment, needs his son more than ever to make his small door-to-door scamming business work. But his son secretly dreams of another life, far from his father’s scams.

Produced by Christie Molia for Moteur S’il Vous Plaît (which has produced all Xabi Molia’s features) and by Fin Août Production (Philippe Lioret and Marielle Duigou), Kings for a Day is being co-produced by Rouge International and France 3 Cinéma. Also pre-purchased by OCS, the film will shoot over seven weeks with Martin de Chabaneix as director of photography. The film will be distributed in France by Haut et Court.

To date, Moteur S’il Vous Plaît has produced all Xabi Molia’s feature films, as well as Lost in Paris [+see also:
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interview: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
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(Translated from French)