''La Vengeance au Triple Galop'' is a 2021 French

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directed by

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and Arthur Sanigou, starring

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, Alex Lutz,

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Gaspard Ulliel Gaspard Thomas Ulliel (; 25 November 198419 January 2022) was a French actor. He was known for having portrayed the young Hannibal Lecter in ''Hannibal Rising'' (2007), fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the biopic '' Saint Laurent'' (2014 ...

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, and

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. The film is a parody of the 1983 Australian TV series ''

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''. It was originally broadcast by French TV channel

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on 4 October 2021. It was the last film starring Gaspard Ulliel to be released during his lifetime.

Plot

After the death of her father, Stephanie Harper, a wealthy heiress, finds herself at the head of an empire she never dreamed of. A few years later, she married with great fanfare Craig Danners, three weeks after their "love at first sight". This man is a star thanks to the sport of which he is a reference in the whole world. However, he is not the dream husband... Craig has an affair with Crystal, Stephanie's best friend. The couple of lovers has a Machiavellian plan to get rid of Stephanie and steal her fortune.

Cast

as Stephanie Harper / Dolly Praners *

as Craig Danners *

as Claude Marquinnier *

as Crystal Clear *

as Danley Marchal-Widkins *

as Kim Randall *

as Debby Harper *

as Rodney Stingwing *

Karin Viard Karin Viard (; born 24 January 1966) is a multi-award-winning French actress. She made her film debut in ''Tatie Danielle'' in 1990. She has appeared in films such as ''Delicatessen'', ''L'Emploi du temps'', ''Adultère, mode d'emploi'' and ''La ...

as Miranda Bloomberg *Bruno Sanches as Abigail Santa Cruz *

Ingrid Chauvin Ingrid Chauvin (; born 3 October 1973) is a French television and stage actress, known for her roles in the miniseries ''Méditerranée'', ''Dolmen'', and the police procedural series ''Femmes de loi''. Early life and career Ingrid Chauvin was ...

as La Juge

Production

A co-production between Supermouche and JMD, the film is a parody of the 1983 Australian TV series ''

'', whose French title is "La Vengeance aux Deux Visages" ("Two Faces of Revenge"). Director Alex Lutz said he used to watch soap-operas with his grandmother when he was a child, and that he wanted to pay a tribute to those soap-operas and also to his childhood memories. A trailer was released on 24 September 2021.

Filming

It was filmed in three weeks between April and May 2021. It was shot in

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, on the property of horse trainer Mario Luraschi, with whom director Alex Lutz often rides.

Release

The film made its world premiere at the Rochelle Fiction Film Festival in France on 17 September 2021. It was broadcast by French TV channel

on 4 October 2021. From 20 December to 23 December 2021, the film was broadcast as a four-part miniseries on Canal+. It was also made available for streaming on Canal+'s streaming platform, myCANAL.

Awards

References

External links

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