Overview

In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is a television broadcaster; the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector, a tax man, the director of a cultural center, and a sociologist who is about to step into a ministerial position. Their interlocking lives are told in alternating vignettes over a four-year period, and the professions director Jacques Fansten has chosen for his main characters seem to be a comment on the media, education, budget or finance, the arts, and government bureaucracy under Socialist rule.

Genres

Cast

Tchéky Karyo

Bertrand

Robin Renucci

Maurice

Xavier Deluc

Michel

Jean-Pierre Bacri

Romain

François Cluzet

Pierrot

Sandrine Dumas

Marie Lampert

Nathalie Nell

Martine

Zabou Breitman

Hélène

Martine Sarcey

Mme Favart

Jean-Paul Roussillon

Arnolli

Michel Berto

Un fonctionnaire

Bernard Freyd

Gambier