The Minister ( L'exercice de l'État )

The Minister (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: L'exercice de l'État
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Belgium ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
112 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Pierre Schöller

Written By:
Pierre Schöller

Actors:
Olivier Gourmet ..... Bertrand Saint-Jean
Michel Blanc ..... Gilles
Zabou Breitman ..... Pauline
Laurent Stocker ..... Yan
Sylvain Deblé ..... Martin Kuypers
Didier Bezace ..... Dominique Woessner
Jacques Boudet ..... Le sénateur Juillet
François Chattot ..... Le ministre de la Santé, Falconetti
Gaëtan Vassart ..... Loïk
Arly Jover ..... Séverine Saint jean
Eric Naggar ..... Le Premier ministre
Anne Azoulay ..... Josepha
Abdelhafid Metalsi ..... Louis do
Christian Vautrin ..... Nemrod
François Vincentelli ..... Le ministre du Budget, Peralta

Synopsis:

The Minister for Transport, Bertrand Saint-Jean, is woken in the middle of the night by his personal private secretary. A bus has crashed into a ravine. He goes there, he has no choice. Thus begins the odyssey of a State official through an increasingly complex and hostile world. Speed, power struggles, chaos, economic crisis… In the frantic chain of events, one emergency replaces another. What sacrifices are men ready to accept? How long will they last in a State that devours those who serve it?

Bertrand Saint-Jean (Olivier Gourmet), who serves as France's minister of transportation in this resolutely realistic fiction written and directed by Pierre Schöller, is smart, hardworking, and generally loyal to those who are loyal to him. But he's also a prick, often seeming more interested in protecting his image than the public interest, trampling the feelings of the people around him, and neglecting his wife and children even though he appears to love them. He multitasks his way through workdays that bleed deep into the night, fighting to maintain or improve his position in a world of secrets, betrayals, and intrigue. Judging by the wet dream he's awakened from in the first scene, in which a naked woman crawls into the gaping mouth of a live alligator, he appears to get off on danger-but this thrill also takes a the toll on the man, as he becomes alternately beleaguered, self-loathing, and enraged at having been outmaneuvered by a political nemesis.

Pierre Schöller's political thriller focuses on a cabinet minister (Olivier Gourmet) in charge of national transportation who believes himself to be a man of the people. He wants both to be and do good, but in order to get anything done he must, given the exigencies of compromise, cajole, bend and even betray.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 05 November, 2012.

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