Benoît Delépine
Also Known As: Michael Kael
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Benoît Delépine (30 August 1958 –) is a French comedian and film director. He is known for his satirical activities on TV channel Canal+. Director of the TV program Guignols de l'info for many years, he currently writes TV programs about the fictional country of Groland. He also plays the cynical journalist-reporter Mickael Kael. In the cinema, Delépine has written and performed in two films. Mickael Kael contre la World News Company, a chess commercial, reprising two elements of the fictional career of the director: his role as a reporter for Groland and the World Company, which he contributed to create for Les Guignols. In 2004, Aaltra, which he wrote, directed, and starred in with Gustave de Kervern enjoyed critical success. The two companions from the Groland adventure wrote and directed it as a road movie where two enemies travel the roads of northern France and Finland following an accident. Also with Gustave Kervern, he has directed and starred in Avida, which was awarded screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. His upcoming film Mammuth was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. He is a supporter of Attac. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benoît Delépine licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Saint-Quentin, France
Birthday: August 30, 1958
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Groland - 100 ans déjà
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-30
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Mords-les !
Overview: Follow Brigitte Fontaine as she wanders in the streets of Morlaix.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-18
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Plus belle l'eau de vie
Overview: The life and adventures of random people in a shit hole of Groland.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-01-03
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Aaltra
Overview: In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their rage on each other but on the manufacturer of the tractor, in Helsinki. So get ready for a hilarious wheelchair road movie.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-23
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En Marche vers l'Effondrement !
Overview: Disappointed by leftists politics this last few years, PAP'40 of the Church of the Holy $aint Con$umption decide to run for presidential election of 2022 to fix the country. He meets his electorate and other candidates to spread the word : Work, Obey, Consume !
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-08
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Avida
Overview: The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last wishes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-13
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Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
Overview: A naive French reporter is sent to an African town to cover a sensational news story, unaware that it has been faked by an international news giant in the hopes of getting the US president re-elected for a third term.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-02-18
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En même temps
Overview: On the eve of a vote to greenlight the construction of a leisure centre where a primal forest currently stands, an unashamedly right-wing mayor sets out to trap his ecologist opponent. But both will end up being outwitted by a group of feminist activists who will confront the two men with their own contradictions, once and for all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-04-06
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Groland - 15 ans d'âge... bête
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-11-05
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Near Death Experience
Overview: Paul, a call center employee, is completely burnt out. One Friday 13, a television news report seems to be a signal that he must take action. Determined to give concrete expression to his gesture, he flees to the mountain, where he'll experience a unique event.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-10
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Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie
Overview: Professor Choron recounts with his memories as a child of a barrier guard, the 2nd World War with its horrors and the trains he saw during those years leaving for Germany or coming from there, full of French or German soldiers, in conquest or in rout according to the period
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-22
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Dada
Overview: The owner of a failing circus has to cope with the return of her son after he is released from the psychiatric hospital with complete loss of memory.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
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30ème Comité Central du Groland
Overview: 30 years ago, Jules-Edouard Moustic and his team imagined Groland, a fictional country, the scene of a series of humorous programs aimed at parodying national and international news.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-12-07
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À l'arraché
Overview: A lousy thief steals a car being washed in a gas station. Unfortunately for him, the owner of the vehicle has unsuspected physical resources.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Groland le gros métrage
Overview: Noël and Guy, two young Frincheux girls, tired of their condition of eternal unemployed interim, decided to become the Steve Jobs and Larry Page of the Presidency Grown.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-19
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Top 25 Groland
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-04-14
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Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-18
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Les 20 ans de Groland
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-29
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Les Belges ça ose tout
Overview: Following in the wake of Benoît Poelvoorde and Philippe Geluck, comedians, actors and other Belgian singers have established themselves in France in recent years, in the media and on stage. But, if we appreciate them today, this was not always the case. In this documentary, director Olivier Monssens acts as the spokesperson for his compatriots. Through testimonies and delicious archive images, he returns to the not-so-distant era when our neighbors were considered friendly but somewhat idiotic people. The film is also an opportunity to understand what characterizes the Belgian spirit by focusing on some of its facets: humor and its famous local variation, self-deprecation, cinema and music.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-06-23
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GrolandSat
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-13
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Sébastien Tellier: Many Lives
Overview: Since his first album, French musician Sébastien Tellier never ceased to surprise, amuse, and even bother; all without getting lost along the way. The constantly renewed authenticity of his musical universe is still one of the strongest in contemporary pop scene.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-13
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Les Guignols de l'info - L’Exclusive des 10 ans des Guignols
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-02-19
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Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Overview: An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-25
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Nouvelles neuves du monde de Moustic
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-08
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Arrabal et les Garçons
Overview: The cinema of Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern is reminiscent of the one of Fernando Arrabal. This is why the two troublemakers of "Groland" invited the septuagenarian filmmaker to make an appearance in their film "Avida". This documentary, peppered with film excerpts, follows the Groland festival's progress with Arrabal as president.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-12-30
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20 H 20
Overview: A compilation of 12 news programs from Groland.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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