Being Jacques Chirac

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Being Jacques Chirac
Dans la peau de jacques chirac.jpg
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French Dans la peau de Jacques Chirac
Directed by Michel Royer
Karl Zero
Written by Ahmed Hamidi
Michel Royer
Éric Zemmour
Karl Zero
Produced by Yves Darondeau
Christophe Lioud
Emmanuel Priou
Karl Zero
Starring Jacques Chirac (archive footage)
Didier Gustin
Edited by Pascal Ryon
Music by Loïc Dury
Laurent Levesque
Distributed by Rézo Films
Release date
  • May 31, 2006 (2006-05-31)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Being Jacques Chirac (French : Dans la peau de Jacques Chirac) is a 2006 film by Karl Zero and Michel Royer. It has been produced by the same team which produced March of the Penguins .

Contents

It is a mockumentary which is a kind of unauthorized biography of Jacques Chirac, based on archival footage, and told at the first person (the voice of the French president is provided by imitator Didier Gustin). The main comic effect comes from the contradictions between the various speeches of the French President.

The title comes from the title of the French-language version of Being John Malkovich .[ citation needed ]

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