The Belgians resist the Nazis in Le Faux Soir: trailer
The story of an incredible true story, with Arieh Worthalter, Mélanie Thierry, Karim Leklou and François Damiens.
Nine years after his last feature film, Michaël R. Roskam is making his comeback to the cinema. The director of Bullhead And When night comes changes register to tell in The False Evening an astonishing page from the Second World War, with a great cast mixing Belgian and French actors: Arieh Worthalter, Mélanie Thierry, Karim Leklou, Mara Taquin, Bouli Lanners, Julien Frison, François Damiens…
Synopsis: 1943. The Nazis occupy Belgium and make the national daily Le Soir their propaganda tool.
While it is forbidden to commemorate November 11, a group of resistance fighters have a crazy idea: what if, to boost the morale of the Belgians, they managed to print a fake edition of Le Soir? The same paper, the same title, the same format, but full of articles ridiculing the occupier.
This is the crazy adventure and the true story of the fake issue of a real newspaper…
The False Evening will be presented at the closing of the Saint-Jean-de-Luz International Film Festival, which takes place from October 3 to 9. Release scheduled in France on January 27, 2027. Trailer:
