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Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive.

Keywords

  • Awarded comedies
  • Based on a True Story
  • European Film Awards
  • Feel Good Movies
  • Festival de Cannes
  • French Comedy
  • Love Among Friends
  • Only on Sooner
  • True Story
  • friendship

Actors

  • Kad Merad
  • Marina Hands
  • Laurent Stocker
  • Pierre Lottin
  • Wabinlé Nabié

Director

  • Emmanuel Courcol

Comedy, Drama

1h 45min

-12

FR

NL

France
2020
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive.

Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive.


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