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Interview - Marcel Bluwal Presentation: Marcel Bluwal, at age 85, is a signature when it comes to French television. His most famous production is the 1972 production Les Misérables, remained as a thrilling TV mini-series. Beyond that acclaimed show, Bluwal has directed countless theatrical releases, including the Golden Palm award winning comedy Carambolage (1963), with Jean-Claude Brialy, and Louis de Funès. It takes a brilliant director like Bluwal to peer into the mind of an extremist. The frightening actions of France’s extreme right wing party in the 1930s make it easy to forget that, at the end of the day, the movement was started by ordinary people like anybody else. In The Hardline Right Bluwal takes us uncomfortably close to the fascist party of Europe, showing us their ideals, their motivations, and most chillingly, the ways in which they’re just like us. Actor Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu plays Francois Salmon, an aristocratic businessman whose life is thrown into chaos when he joins a hardline right wing political party in the days leading up to World War Two. Dannadieu, the founder of a car manufacturing company and a prominent French socialite, is threatened by the rise of the left wing party. He fears for his family, his social wellbeing, and the future of his country. Desperate, he joins La Cagoule, a borderline terrorist group led by the enigmatic Deloncle (Didier Bezace). Salmon is quickly sucked into the paranoid, violent world of pre-war politics, becoming a dark champion of anti-communist and anti-Semitic ideals. Along with a motley group of fellow extremists, he will orchestrate a diabolical plot with the aim of overthrowing the very Republi of France. |
