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LADY IN CHIEF

Photo credit © Aurélien Faidy - E.PP / Gilles Schrempp - France 2

Pitch

Antoine Grand, a recent recruit to Lille’s fire brigade, has found a new family at Colombier station barracks.

However, these normally united tough guys find their world turned upside down when they are told their site has been chosen to test the feminization of the Fire Brigade. The mighty firefighters are to have a new lady chief, Nathalie Métrono…

Technical information

GENRE

Comedy

RUNTIME

90 minutes

DIRECTION

Philippe VENAULT

SCRIPT

Philippe DUSSAU, based upon ‘Le 18’ by Ludovic ROUBAUDI – Editions Le Dilettante

PRODUCTION

La Boîte à Images – Mathilde MUFFANG
Be-FILMS – RTBF

CAST

Françis RENAUD (Malavoie)
Stanislas CRÉVILLEN (Grand)
Marie VERNALDE (Métrono)
Kamel BELGHAZI (Ben Saïd)
Diouc KOMA (Alex)
with the participation of
Micky SEBASTIAN
Ann-Gisel GLASS
and Nanou GARCIA

INTERNATIONAL SALES

Film & Picture

YEAR

2007

BROADCASTERS

France 2, RTBF, TSR, TV5MONDE

CREW

Photography: Yves LAFAYE
Sound: Olivier de NESLE
Editing: Véronique BRUQUE
Casting: Hélène BERNARDIN
Set: Jimmy VANSTEENKISTE
Costume  Alexandra CHARLES
Production management: Didier LANGLADE

Awards

Official competition
LUCHON’S FESTIVAL 2008

Mention « FAVORITE »

Opening’s film
FILM FESTIVAL OF COLMAR 2008