Benoît Delépine
Birthday: Born in 1958-08-30 in Saint-Quentin, France
Deathday: Alive
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Benoît Delépine (30 August 1958 –) is a French comedian and film director. He is known for his satirical activities on TV channel Canal+. Director of the TV program Guignols de l'info for many years, he currently writes TV programs about the fictional country of Groland. He also plays the cynical journalist-reporter Mickael Kael. In the cinema, Delépine has written and performed in two films. Mickael Kael contre la World News Company, a chess commercial, reprising two elements of the fictional career of the director: his role as a reporter for Groland and the World Company, which he contributed to create for Les Guignols. In 2004, Aaltra, which he wrote, directed, and starred in with Gustave de Kervern enjoyed critical success. The two companions from the Groland adventure wrote and directed it as a road movie where two enemies travel the roads of northern France and Finland following an accident. Also with Gustave Kervern, he has directed and starred in Avida, which was awarded screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. His upcoming film Mammuth was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. He is a supporter of Attac. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benoît Delépine licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Tout le monde en parle
Character: Self
Tout le monde en parle is a French talk show broadcast on France 2 from September 5, 1998 to July 8, 2006. It was hosted by Thierry Ardisson and produced by Catherine Barma. During its first season, the show took the form of societal debates; it was in September 1999 that it was re-formatted into a talk-show. The show features guests who are making news at the moment, including actors, writers, singers, politicians and athletes. Guests discuss their life and engage in thematic interviews. The ...
Groland
Character: Mickael Kael
Parodic news programme focusing on the fictional country Groland (full name: Presipality of Groland), airing on French television channel Canal+....
Des gens bien ordinaires
Character: Le père de Romain
Romain, 18, is a sociology student. In rebellion against his native environment and imprisoned in a toxic romantic relationship with a woman who has total control over his life, he thinks he can find in the pornographic adventure a way of emancipation. Instead he discovers a very ordinary environment....
Movie Credits
Groland - 100 ans déjà
Character: Michael Kael
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Mords-les !
Character: L'archer
Follow Brigitte Fontaine as she wanders in the streets of Morlaix....
Plus belle l'eau de vie
Character: Le Comte de Kael
The life and adventures of random people in a shit hole of Groland....
Aaltra
Character: L'employé
In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their rage on each other but on the manufacturer of the tractor, in Helsinki. So get ready for a hilarious wheelchair road movie....
En Marche vers l'Effondrement !
Character: Sbire Mr Sweet
Disappointed by leftists politics this last few years, PAP'40 of the Church of the Holy $aint Con$umption decide to run for presidential election of 2022 to fix the country. He meets his electorate and other candidates to spread the word : Work, Obey, Consume !...
Avida
Character: L'homme à la tête de scotch
The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last wishes....
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
Character: Michel Chel alias Michael Kael
A naive French reporter is sent to an African town to cover a sensational news story, unaware that it has been faked by an international news giant in the hopes of getting the US president re-elected for a third term....
En même temps
Character: Le photographe animalier
On the eve of a vote to greenlight the construction of a leisure centre where a primal forest currently stands, an unashamedly right-wing mayor sets out to trap his ecologist opponent. But both will end up being outwitted by a group of feminist activists who will confront the two men with their own contradictions, once and for all....
Groland - 15 ans d'âge... bête
Character: Michael Kael
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Near Death Experience
Character: Le collègue Orange 1
Paul, a call center employee, is completely burnt out. One Friday 13, a television news report seems to be a signal that he must take action. Determined to give concrete expression to his gesture, he flees to the mountain, where he'll experience a unique event....
Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie
Character: La tête coupée
Professor Choron recounts with his memories as a child of a barrier guard, the 2nd World War with its horrors and the trains he saw during those years leaving for Germany or coming from there, full of French or German soldiers, in conquest or in rout according to the period...
30ème Comité Central du Groland
Character:
30 years ago, Jules-Edouard Moustic and his team imagined Groland, a fictional country, the scene of a series of humorous programs aimed at parodying national and international news....
À l'arraché
Character:
A lousy thief steals a car being washed in a gas station. Unfortunately for him, the owner of the vehicle has unsuspected physical resources....
Groland le gros métrage
Character: Charles Malard
Noël and Guy, two young Frincheux girls, tired of their condition of eternal unemployed interim, decided to become the Steve Jobs and Larry Page of the Presidency Grown....
Top 25 Groland
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Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel
Character: Self
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Les 20 ans de Groland
Character:
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Les Belges ça ose tout
Character: Self
Following in the wake of Benoît Poelvoorde and Philippe Geluck, comedians, actors and other Belgian singers have established themselves in France in recent years, in the media and on stage. But, if we appreciate them today, this was not always the case. In this documentary, director Olivier Monssens acts as the spokesperson for his compatriots. Through testimonies and delicious archive images, he returns to the not-so-distant era when our neighbors were considered friendly but somewhat idiotic p...
GrolandSat
Character: Various Characters
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Sébastien Tellier: Many Lives
Character: Self
Since his first album, French musician Sébastien Tellier never ceased to surprise, amuse, and even bother; all without getting lost along the way. The constantly renewed authenticity of his musical universe is still one of the strongest in contemporary pop scene....
Les Guignols de l'info - L’Exclusive des 10 ans des Guignols
Character: Self, Auteur 1988/96
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Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Character: Self - Filmmaker
An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life....
Nouvelles neuves du monde de Moustic
Character: Michael Kael
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Arrabal et les Garçons
Character: Self
The cinema of Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern is reminiscent of the one of Fernando Arrabal. This is why the two troublemakers of "Groland" invited the septuagenarian filmmaker to make an appearance in their film "Avida". This documentary, peppered with film excerpts, follows the Groland festival's progress with Arrabal as president....
20 H 20
Character: Michael Kael
A compilation of 12 news programs from Groland....