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A Head for Business

A Head for Business

Comedy

1h 32m

August 23, 2000 (25 years ago)

Overview

A satirical examination of the transformation of a French investment bank into a Hollywood power broker, Le Sens des Affaires begins with a lowly bank clerk's embezzlement of $104 million francs (about $14 million dollars) to finance his screen adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters. The clerk, Gerard Dutillard, funnels bank funds into three fictional affiliates in a way that makes the bank's president, Jean-Francois de Roquemorel, legally responsible. Financial ruin seems a distinct possibility, but Dutillard has worked out a plan to make the system work in his favor, and soon enough his banking superiors are doing their best to salvage his film and make it marketable, prompting actual investors to fuel the production with cash.

ActorAge thenAge now
Féodor Atkine

Féodor Atkine

Jean-François de Roquemaurel

Birthday: February 27, 1948

5277
Claire Keim

Claire Keim

Laetitia Zoët

Birthday: July 8, 1975

2550
Albert Delpy

Albert Delpy

Edouard

Birthday: September 13, 1940

5984
François Levantal

François Levantal

Etienne Bac

Birthday: October 14, 1960

3964
Guy-Philippe Bertin

Guy-Philippe Bertin

Dutillard

Birthday: -

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