''Nobody's Hero'' () is a 2022 French comedy-drama film directed by

Alain Guiraudie Alain Guiraudie (; born 15 July 1964) is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed ten mostly LGBT-related films since 1990. He is openly gay. Work Guiraudie has named Georges Bataille as an important influence. His 2013 film '' ...

Cast

* Jean-Charles Clichet - Médéric *

Noémie Lvovsky Noémie Lvovsky (; born 14 December 1964) is a French film director, screenwriter, and actress. She is best known for directing ''Camille Rewinds and Life Doesn't Scare Me,'' and for her roles in ''My Wife Is an Actress, House of Tolerance, Sum ...

- Isadora * Iliès Kadri - Selim * Michel Masiero - M. Coq

Production

Principal photography Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production. Personnel Besides the main film personnel, such as the ...

began on 28 January 2020 in

Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand (, , ; or simply ; ) is a city and Communes of France, commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions of France, region, with a population of 147,284 (2020). Its metropolitan area () had 504,157 inhabitants at the 2018 ...

. After 40 days into a scheduled 48-day-shoot, filming was suspended upon the first lockdown of the

COVID-19 pandemic in France The COVID-19 pandemic in France has resulted in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and deaths. The virus was confirmed to have reached France on 24 January 2020, when the first COVID-19 case in both Europe and France was identified in Bordeaux. T ...

. The production resumed on 8 June 2020, filming a remaining three days in Clermont and five days at the

Epinay Studios The Epinay Studios are film production studios located in Epinay in northern Paris. It was a complex with two distinct and separate structures. The earliest was built in 1902 by Eclair Film. A second studio was controlled by the French subsidiar ...

Épinay-sur-Seine Épinay-sur-Seine (, literally ''Épinay on Seine'') is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. The church of Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien, ...

. It was one of the first films in France to resume production post-lockdown.

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* * 2022 comedy-drama films French comedy-drama films 2020s French films Films shot in Clermont-Ferrand Films shot at Epinay Studios Les Films du Losange films Films directed by Alain Guiraudie {{2020s-France-film-stub