In the Beginning (French: À l'origine) is a 2009 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli. The film competed in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.[2]
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Directed by | Xavier Giannoli |
Written by | Xavier Giannoli |
Produced by | Pierre-Ange Le Pogam Celia Simonnet Edouard Weil |
Starring | François Cluzet Emmanuelle Devos |
Cinematography | Glynn Speeckaert |
Edited by | Célia Lafitedupont |
Music by | Cliff Martinez |
Production companies | Rectangle Productions Studio 37 France 3 Cinéma |
Distributed by | EuropaCorp |
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Running time | 130 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Box office | $2.8 million[1] |
The film tells the dramatized true story of Philippe Berre, a Frenchman with a reputation as an impostor. In the film, much as actual events, Monsieur Berre goes to a small town, passing himself off as a civil engineer, and claims that the government has decided to start previously scrapped plans for the construction of a highway. He commissions supplies, gains construction vehicles, and brings jobs to the community and actually constructs a section of roadway in the process before being discovered.
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