THE LAST TYCOONS

LE TEMPS DES NABABS

By Florence STRAUSS

LE PACTE - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, FRANCE

TV Series - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Festival des Lumieres 2019
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • TV Series, Historical, Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 416 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Florence STRAUSS
    • Producer(s)
    • Serge LALOU (LES FILMS D'ICI), Jean LABADIE (LE PACTE)
    • Synopsis
    • They have always worked in the shadow and remain unknown to the broader public. Yet, they have produced movies that we all know, from La Grande Vadrouille to La Grande Bouffe, from Fanfan La Tulipe to The Mother and the Whore, from Nuit et Brouillard to Beauty and the Beast. Self-made men, passionate, gamblers, they have financed cinema with an exceptional ingeniousness at a time where neither televisions nor SOFICAS existed.
      Starting from the bottom, they could either win everything... or lose everything. They are colorful characters with a fiction-like life path. Between the desires of the directors and the reality of the shootings, they ensured that the film was carried out and sometimes made choices that confront art versus industry, creation versus money. They were the kings of illusion, they had to land credibility to their status of tycoons to compensate their lack of banking solvency!
      The Last Tycoons enlightens these men and women between the two world wars and the end of the 70’s, who have produced the films that keep on striking spectators of the entire world.