Mickael Kael against World News Company

Mickael Kael against World News Company is a French film carried out by Christophe Smith, left in 1997.

Synopsis

Mickael Kael is the corresponding permanent one to Paris, of a large chain of American information, the World News Company . But one day, the owner of this large chain sends it in Africa, in order to make a report on a festival of Franco-African dance. He quickly goes account, him and the other journalists, that this festival is only one pretext, and that he is the pawn of an enormous media handling, whose objective is political. But its incapacity and its lack of talent, from a journalistic point of view, will make miss the operation, because it will start panic in cities of the whole world, with the approach of the year 2000.

Comment

This film surfe on the vagueness of the success of the character Mickael Kael created by Benoit Delépine for the television channel Canal+. Currycomb by criticism, the film was a commercial failure, in spite of its good reconstitution of the daily newspaper of the journalists sent on the ground. This parodic work can be regarded as a reflection on the world of information and its drifts.

Data sheet

Title: Mickael Kael against World News Company
Realization: Christophe Smith
Scenario: Benoit Delépine
Executive producer: Dominique Brunner
Associate producer: Charles Gassot
Music: 109 international
Photography: Pascal Gennesseaux
Framework: Nicolas Herdt
Sound: Gerald Lamps, Marc-Antoine Beldent, Frederic Dubois
Assembly: Veronique Parnet
Decorations: Jean-Marc Kerdelhué
Costumes: Jaqueline Bouchard
Country of origin: France
Format: Color
Kind: Comedy
Lasted: 90 minutes
Comings out date: February 18th 1998

Distribution

Benoit Delépine: Michael Kael
Féodor Atkine: Major Sylvain
Marine Delterme: Paola Maertens
Victoria the Main thing: Leila Parker
Elliott Gould: Coogan
William Atherton: James Denit
Mickey Rooney: Griffith
Yves Jacques: Charles Robert
Alix Konopka: Miss Picotte
Michael Morris: Robert Kipp
Jules-Edouard Moustic: itself

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

Mickael Kael against World News Company on IMDb
the poster of the film

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