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PARLAMENT

PARLAMENT

PARLEMENT
Director: Émilie Noblet, Jérémie Sein
TV SeriesF, B, D 20202x26' (10x26')German subs.
Sunday, 4. Oct 2020, 20:30
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Young parliamentary assistant Samy tries to navigate his first days aiding a centrist MEP through the diplomatic jungle of EU-wide fisheries reform. This German-French workplace comedy inside the European Parliament is brilliant screwball stuff with machine-gun dialogue and a plethora of inside jokes on labyrinthine architecture, sneaky lobbyists, frustrated bureaucrats – and of course the language confusion is positively Babylonian, with clumsy Frenchmen, cocky, know-it-all Germans and bitter British Brexit holdovers.

Director
Émilie Noblet, Jérémie Sein
Screenplay
Noé Debré, Daran Johnson, Pierre Dorac, Maxime Calligaro
Producers
Cinétévé, Artémis Productions, Cinecentrum
Executive Producers
David Giordano
Commissioning Editor
Silke Holgersson, Götz Bolten
Cinematography
Lucie Baudinaud
Editing
Baptiste Ribrault, Mathieu Toulemonde
Music
Julie Roué, Francois Clos
Production Design
Ravit Bechor
Cast
Christiane Paul, Lucas Englander, Xavier Lacaille, Liz Kingsman, Jane Turner
International Sales
Cinecentrum
Domestic Sales
France TV Distribution