“Paris 36″ – Spring 1936 – in a working-class part of the north of Paris, an environment perhaps the name had some time ago but it clear that everyone now calls the Faubourg. In the leaflet of the hill, take on an in Paris, on the one hand and the other, the growing suburbs of the district.
Less than a square meter, two shops, crooked buildings, cobbled streets and the peeling facade of the neighborhood’s Banquet Hall, the Chansonia. In this blue-collar neighborhood is the conquest of the Popular Front election direction with gusto and is hoping that the name of a better future, welcomed so far stirs up all kinds of extremism. Among the promises trendy government, the outstanding right to paid leave, which own many of the workers, the plethora of spy desire to win, despite the initial space.
In time in May, three residents of the Faubourg, Show-business workers and Finish friends do not share other people’s uneducated hopes Chansonia, the music auditorium, which they occupied, closed four months earlier, leaving them all inactive. Pigoil (Gérard Jugnot), a stage-hand, thirty years ago with the Chansonia.
Without stress, he was able to escape incarceration of his 12-year-old son, Jojo (Maxence Perrin), and to sing in the world to swallow his plans to him to throw the pile. Milou (Clovis Cornillac), a precipitate electricians and a womanizer. Symbol of the “workers ‘aristocracy”, as every speaker seized sympathetic, he is subject and click the’ Change the world. ” Jacky (Kad Merad), Geezer recent sandwich at the Chansonia.
After conducting aroundthe names of stars on his sandwich surface after years Jacky has dreamingthat he began the king of music-one days entry exquisite command. Convinced that he is a tendency on the extent of impersonation, he is always looking commitment that he does not find.
Generally supports the locals, the opportunity, the accent of Monsieur TSF’s (Pierre Richard) receiver, the three friends go to a decision on the stomach to come on their property: they try those hand on the leg of the lot by to wrest the occupation, the Chansonia and production of the “hit” dulcet, they admit that choice to buy on the spot. Each of them has complete discrete motifs, but they are all part of the after all is said ideally decree new steel yard in their lives.
In recognition of their need for meeting, they be exposed to understanding the great conflict with the unsympathetic the neighborhood “Godfather”, Galpiat (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu), and come to terms with the immigrants a mysterious and beautiful young balladeer , Douce (Nora Arne cedar). The flight of the imagination an aggregate neighborhood, the Chansonia “rise from the ashes” in this joyous month of June? Cast: Gerard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder, Pierre Richard, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Maxence Perrin, François Morel, Elisabeth Vitali, Christophe Kourotchkine, Eric Naggar, Eric Prat, Julien Courbey, Philippe Du Janerand, Marc Citti Chairman: Christophe Barratier STUDIO: Sony Classics Rating: PG-13 (for some sexuality and nudity, and brief formulation Twist THEATER OPEN (Opening Weekend): 2 CONTINUOUS BUT: 2 hours UTTER INTERNAL BUSINESS BUFFET : TBD U.S. DVD emancipate GO quiet: TBD language: , French (with English subtitles)