''Virgil'' is a
2005
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comedy drama film written and directed by French-Tunisian director
Mabrouk El Mechri
Mabrouk el Mechri (born 18 September 1976) is a French director, screenwriter, and actor.
Biography
El Mechri was born in Versailles near Paris, France. He has directed a number of films. After his three shorts ''Mounir et Anita'', ''Generation C ...
, his
first feature film. It had its first public screening in movie theaters starting September 2005. The film is about the life of a French boxer in the French suburbs.
Synopsis
Every week, Virgil dreams of his father Ernest telling him about his earlier life as a boxer.
And every week he dreams of a crossing glance from a young woman named Margot. This week, his father announces that he will finally come to see his son fight on the boxing ring. One problem: Virgil has not been boxing for the last three years.
Cast
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Jalil Lespert
Jalil Lespert (born 11 May 1976) is a French actor, screenwriter and director.
Life and career
Born to an ethnic French (Pied-Noir) father, actor Jean Lespert, and an Algerian mother, who is an attorney and a jurist, Lespert first studied law, ...
as Virgil
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Léa Drucker
Léa Drucker (born 23 January 1972) is a French actress.
Early life
Born in Caen, Normandy, she is the niece of television presenter Michel Drucker, and of ex-president of M6 Jean Drucker. Her father Jacques is a medical doctor, and her mothe ...
as Margot
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Jean-Pierre Cassel
Jean-Pierre Cassel (born Jean-Pierre Crochon; 27 October 1932 – 19 April 2007) was a French actor.
Early life
Cassel was born Jean-Pierre Crochon in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Louise-Marguerite (née Fabrègue), an opera si ...
as Ernest
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Philippe Nahon
Philippe Nahon (; 24 December 1938 – 19 April 2020) was a French actor.
Best known films
Nahon was best known for his roles in French horror and thriller films, including '' I Stand Alone'', '' Humains'', '' Calvaire'', ''The Pack'' and ''H ...
as Louis
* Patrick Floersheim as Dunlopillo
* Karim Belkhadra as Sid
* Sami Zitouni as Kader
* Jean-Marie Frin as Mario Taliori
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Tomer Sisley
Tomer Sisley (born Tomer Gazit; he, תומר סיסלי; born 14 August 1974) is an Israeli and French actor and comedian.
Early and personal life
Born in West Berlin, West Germany, to Israeli-born parents who had relocated for his father's job ...
as Dino Taliori
* Jean-Luc Abel as Marcel
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Marc Duret
Marc Duret (born 28 September 1957 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France) is a French actor.
Having previously played Cardinal Guillaume Briçonnet in the television series ''Borgia'' from 2011 to 2014, Duret appeared as Joseph Duverney in the St ...
as Man in the kitchen
External links
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2005 comedy-drama films
2005 directorial debut films
2005 films
French comedy-drama films
2000s French films
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