Roman and Edek have emigrated to France to taste the French dream ; and they succeed -for a short while- beyond all expectations!
This is a marvelously precise spoof on the world of cinema ; because they are mistaken for an Icelandic director who made a would be masterpiece "nuit blanche sur la banquise" (=sleepless night on the ice field), both Poles are given the royal treatment : de luxe hotel,gourmet meals, limos ; and director François Velle (son of famous actor Louis Velle who essentially works on stage and on TV and who appears bearded in the movie )does not miss an opportunity to laugh at the world he depicts (and to make us heartily laugh at the same time ) : the question of the highbrow journalist who "analyzes " the movie in a way nobody can understand a word of his logorrhea; the screening of the movie during which the "interpret " falls alsleep; the smug self-satisfied producer (the always reliable Thierry Lhermitte) whose only worry is to make money ; the jury who deliberates ,before giving the awards : as the festival takes place in Reims ,capitale of Champagne wine , the highest prize is the "bouchon d'or" (=golden cork) , a horror which the impostors ( it's an alternate title to "come des rois" )win hands down with their nordic movie.
Stephane Freiss and Marius Pujszo are riotously funny in the grand tradition of Stan and Olie , overtaken by the events , but taking advantage of the crazy situation ,playing their role of usurpers to the hilt.
This is a marvelously precise spoof on the world of cinema ; because they are mistaken for an Icelandic director who made a would be masterpiece "nuit blanche sur la banquise" (=sleepless night on the ice field), both Poles are given the royal treatment : de luxe hotel,gourmet meals, limos ; and director François Velle (son of famous actor Louis Velle who essentially works on stage and on TV and who appears bearded in the movie )does not miss an opportunity to laugh at the world he depicts (and to make us heartily laugh at the same time ) : the question of the highbrow journalist who "analyzes " the movie in a way nobody can understand a word of his logorrhea; the screening of the movie during which the "interpret " falls alsleep; the smug self-satisfied producer (the always reliable Thierry Lhermitte) whose only worry is to make money ; the jury who deliberates ,before giving the awards : as the festival takes place in Reims ,capitale of Champagne wine , the highest prize is the "bouchon d'or" (=golden cork) , a horror which the impostors ( it's an alternate title to "come des rois" )win hands down with their nordic movie.
Stephane Freiss and Marius Pujszo are riotously funny in the grand tradition of Stan and Olie , overtaken by the events , but taking advantage of the crazy situation ,playing their role of usurpers to the hilt.