Gilles Lellouche becomes Jean Moulin: first images
The actor has just finished filming a film about the famous French resistance fighter.
After recounting life in the camps with The Son of Saul (2015) — Grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival and Oscar for best foreign film — Hungarian director László Nemes moves his camera to France to tell the story of Jean Moulin.
In Millit will focus on the arrest of the resistance prefect in 1943 and his interrogation by the SS Klaus Barbie.
It is Gilles Lellouche who will slip into the emblematic coat of the most famous French resistance fighter. Opposite, the German Lars Eidinger will play Barbie.
“We wanted to give France a film about the greatest hero of the 20th century.” recounted in The Parisian producer Alain Goldman, promising that Mill will not be “a traditional biopic, but a feature film about the idea of resistance in the broad sense.”
Written by Olivier Demangel (who signed November and the series Tapie), the film was shot in Hungary with modest means, for a budget “less than 15 million euros“.
The synopsis details: “June 1943, Jean Moulin, leader of the Resistance, was arrested while trying to reunify the forces of the Secret Army. Questioned by Klaus Barbie, the head of the Lyon Gestapo, Moulin is drawn into an implacable confrontation where every silence becomes an act of resistance. His final fight against manipulation and brutality begins. The destiny of free France depends on it.”
Mill will be released in theaters on October 28, 2026 in France.
