A Self-Made Hero

Name: A Self-Made Hero
Director: Jacques Audiard
Released: 1996
Duration: 1 h 47 min
Cast: Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain, Albert Dupontel, Nadia Barentin

by Jacques Audiard1h471996France

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Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he inveigles himself with the resistance movement. They trust him and he helps them trace collaborators.

Cast and crew

Credits
- Distributor : Studiocanal
- Production Compagny : Alicéléo, Cofimage 7, Lumière, Studio Images 2
- Sound Recorder : Jean-Pierre Duret
- Director : Jacques Audiard
- Scenario : Jacques Audiard, Alain Le Henry
- Editing : Juliette Welfling
- Original Music : Alexandre Desplat
- Costume Design : Caroline de Vivaise
- Original Work Author : Jean-François Deniau
- Producer : Patrick Godeau
- Photo Director : Jean-Marc Fabre
- Set Decoration : Dominique Douret
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1996
- French release date : Invalid date
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Colors
- Language : French

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This film is recommended by
- Olivier et Éric Nakache & Toledano
- Xavier Dolan
This film is part of the Cinematographic movement
"France, Generation 90"
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A Self-Made Hero

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Credits

Technical details

Other films

By the same director

See How They Fall

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

Read My Lips

From the same year

The Life of Jesus

Taste of Cherry

Eyes Wide Shut

With the same cast

Mathieu Kassovitz

See How They Fall

La Haine

Amélie

Anouk Grinberg

I Don't Hear the Guitar Anymore

Sandrine Kiberlain

Les Patriotes

Nothing about Robert

The Apartment

Albert Dupontel

Irréversible

This film is recommended by

Olivier et Éric Nakache & Toledano

Xavier Dolan

This film is part of the Cinematographic movement

"France, Generation 90"