Jean Dujardin is shooting in the new film by Xavier Giannoli

The director of lost illusions is preparing a war film, rays and shadows.

Three years after the release of his latest film, Lost illusionsmulti-rewarded to the César, and the acclaimed series of Money and bloodthe director returns with Rays and shadowsinspired by a true story. This new long signed Xavier Giannoli will take place during the Second World War with the casting, a French star that we know well, Jean Dujardin.

Rays and shadows tells the story of a father (Jean Dujardin), an important journalist, and his daughter, film star, in France of the occupation. The father, Luchaire, a pacifist activist, goes to see his destiny upset by becoming – under the protection of his childhood friend, Otto Abtez, Ambassador of Nazi Germany in Paris – Press boss. A hand outstretched towards collaboration. Otto Abtez, a true sincere Francophile, but also a master in the art of manipulation, will lead the journalist in the shallows until his death sentence in 1946. Then it was the turn of her daughter, Corinne, who is she condemned to ten years of national unworthiness in front of the Civic Chamber of the Seine department, a few months after her father. The film retraces the dark periods of our history through the heartbreaking fatality of the characters.

The appearance: Xavier Giannoli, master of illusion (critic)

Jean Dujardin is talked about since he will also play this year the main role of the new film of Jan Kounen,, The man who narrows– Adaptation of the eponymous novel by Richard Matheson – scheduled for October 29.

Its performance, widely acclaimed in the film phenomenon The Artisthe has earned him a multitudes of awards. In 2014, the 50-year-old already embodied Jean-Claude Clermont, a character from Men monumentsstaged during the Second World War. In this story, inspired by a true story, Jean Dujardin played alongside George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon and Bill Murray.

Although the date of release in theaters of this new film is not yet revealed, we already know that Nastya Golubeva Carax And August Diehl Complete the casting. The shooting that started in Paris should end on July 18.

Excluded – Jan Kounen presents his version of the narrowed man, with Jean Dujardin