Benoît Delépine

​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.

Works

Le Gro Secret

As CANAL+ is celebrating its 40th anniversary, Doully reveals their darkest secret: they stole everything from Groland!

Release Date:2024-11-04

Department:Writing

Job:Idea

En Marche vers l'Effondrement !

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 !

Release Date:2023-03-08

Character:Sbire Mr Sweet

30ème Comité Central du Groland

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.

Release Date:2022-12-07

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Character:

A Very Ordinary World
5.0

A Very Ordinary World

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.

Release Date:2022-06-06

Character:Le père de Romain

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:3

5.2

En même temps

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.

Release Date:2022-04-06

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Le photographe animalier

Vote Count:107

Plus belle l'eau de vie

The life and adventures of random people in a shit hole of Groland.

Release Date:2021-01-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Le Comte de Kael

Mords-les !

Follow Brigitte Fontaine as she wanders in the streets of Morlaix.

Release Date:2020-09-18

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:L'archer

5.0

Delete History

In a provincial suburb, three neighbours come to terms with the consequences of the new world of social media. Marie, who lives off her husband’s family allowance, is afraid of losing her son’s respect because of a sex tape. Bertrand can’t say no to advertising calls and is fighting to protect his daughter, who is being bullied online. Christine, after losing everything because of her addiction to TV series, wonders why her rating as an Uber driver is not taking off. These three lone fighters are incapable of finding a solution to their problems on their own — until they join forces to declare war on the tech giants.

Release Date:2020-08-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:227

5.9

Sébastien Tellier: Many Lives

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.

Release Date:2020-02-13

Character:Self

Vote Count:7

6.2

Claude Chabrol, the Maverick

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.

Release Date:2019-01-25

Character:Self - Filmmaker

Vote Count:10

5.6

I Feel Good

He’s lived for too long off his parents. It’s time for 40-year-old slacker Jacques to get by on his own. One-time gigolo and a borderline bum, he knows what he wants – to become rich and famous. He even has a business plan: tourism combined with cheap plastic surgery. Jacques moves in with his older sister, Monique, who manages an Emmaus village in the south west of France. And before long, the smooth-talking chancer has convinced a group of workers to pool their meagre funds and set out on a trip to a clinic in Bulgaria, where all their dreams of a brighter and more beautiful future will all come true. If only…

Release Date:2018-09-26

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:221

Top 25 Groland

Release Date:2018-04-14

Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel

Release Date:2017-10-18

Character:Self

5.5

Les Belges ça ose tout

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 people. The film is also an opportunity to understand what characterizes the Belgian spirit by focusing on some of its facets: humor and its famous local variation, self-deprecation, cinema and music.

Release Date:2017-06-23

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

5.7

Saint Amour

Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. This year, his father suggests they finish it together, but a real wine trail, across the French countryside. Accompanied by Mike, a young, quirky taxi driver, they set off in the direction of France’s major wine regions. Together, they are going to discover not only the wine trails, but also the road that leads back to Love.

Release Date:2016-03-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:151

4.7

Groland le gros métrage

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.

Release Date:2015-12-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Charles Malard

Vote Count:7

6.2

Near Death Experience

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.

Release Date:2014-09-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Le collègue Orange 1

Vote Count:21

4.9

Ablations

Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit. He wakes up in the middle of a field without any memory at all of how he got there. Even stranger is the ugly scar on his back. But what really drives him out of his mind is that the stitches from the operation are still fresh. Has he become the victim of on organ theft? Is he missing a kidney? Pastor starts to put everything in Question; being a father, a husband, a salesman... The only thing he wants is to find out what has happened to him and nothing and nobody will stop him.

Release Date:2014-04-18

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:17

Enfin la fin

A group a young artists are making one last film before the final destruction.

Release Date:2012-12-11

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Les 20 ans de Groland

Release Date:2012-11-29

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:

5.8

The Big Night

An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.

Release Date:2012-06-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:142

Arrabal et les Garçons

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.

Release Date:2011-12-30

Character:Self

5.8

Mammuth

Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it! Pushed by Catherine, his wife, he gets on his old motorcycle from the 70s, a "Mammut" which earned him his nickname, and sets off in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he rediscovers his past and his quest for administrative documents soon becomes incidental...

Release Date:2010-04-21

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:155

Comme un chien

On his way to his rendez-vous, a man starts attacking people.

Release Date:2010-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

6.2

Louise-Michel

In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss.

Release Date:2008-11-12

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:91

8.2

Groland - 15 ans d'âge... bête

Release Date:2007-11-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Michael Kael

Vote Count:2

5.7

Avida

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.

Release Date:2006-09-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:L'homme à la tête de scotch

Vote Count:26

6.3

Aaltra

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.

Release Date:2004-06-23

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:L'employé

Vote Count:60

GrolandSat

Release Date:2003-01-13

Character:Various Characters

Groland - 100 ans déjà

Release Date:2002-12-30

Character:Michael Kael

1.0

Nouvelles neuves du monde de Moustic

Release Date:2002-04-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Michael Kael

Vote Count:1

8.0

20 H 20

A compilation of 12 news programs from Groland.

Release Date:2001-01-01

Character:Michael Kael

Vote Count:1

7.0

Les Guignols de l'info - L’Exclusive des 10 ans des Guignols

Release Date:1999-02-19

Character:Self, Auteur 1988/96

Vote Count:1

6.0

Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie

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

Release Date:1999-01-22

Character:La tête coupée

Vote Count:1

Tout le monde en parle
5.1

Tout le monde en parle

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 show gradually acquired a provocative reputation, notably since the host does not hesitate to ask political guests questions about their private and sexual lives. With Thierry Ardisson as the main host, he was first accompanied by Laurent Ruquier and Linda Hardy. Later, he turned to duos Éric and Ramzy, then Kad and Olivier. Finally, he opted for comedian Lauren Baffie as co-host, until the end of the show.

Release Date:1998-09-19

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

3.4

Michael Kael vs. the World News Company

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.

Release Date:1998-02-18

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Michel Chel alias Michael Kael

Vote Count:8

À l'arraché

A lousy thief steals a car being washed in a gas station. Unfortunately for him, the owner of the vehicle has unsuspected physical resources.

Release Date:1995-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

8.0

L'Année des Guignols - La Combine à Nanard

Release Date:1994-06-30

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Vote Count:1

Semaine des Guignols

Semaine des Guignols

Release Date:1992-09-13

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Episode Count:43

Groland
7.7

Groland

Parodic news programme focusing on the fictional country Groland (full name: Presipality of Groland), airing on French television channel Canal+.

Release Date:1992-09-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Mickael Kael

Episode Count:662

Vote Count:3

8.0

L'Année des Guignols - Tout à fait Thierry

Release Date:1992-06-30

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Vote Count:1

L'Année des Guignols - Les Guignols de l'info n°1

Release Date:1991-07-05

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Dada

The owner of a failing circus has to cope with the return of her son after he is released from the psychiatric hospital with complete loss of memory.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Detective Kibbles

We’re in the inner-suburbs of Angoulême. All the houses look the same. A young couple in love, two hipsters, moves in with their significant others. She’s got a dog that he finds stupid and he’s got an enormous cat that she finds shifty and spineless. Intrigued by the mystery of why this fat cat is always disappearing, Dagobert, the dog, decides to investigate to find out what shady business he’s up to, what secrets he’s hiding. All of this takes place in a city covered with wall murals and besieged by repeated sabotage carried out by really bizarre “terrorists”... and so Detective Kibbles is born. He’s got his work cut out for him, all this and way more as gaffes and slapstic whacky situation.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Animal Totem

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Les Guignols de l'info
7.9

Les Guignols de l'info

Release Date:1988-08-29

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1369

Vote Count:18

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