Supercondriaque

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Supercondriaque
Supercondriaque poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Dany Boon
Written byDany Boon
Produced by
  • Eric Hubert
  • Jérôme Seydoux
Starring
Cinematography Romain Winding
Edited by Monica Coleman
Music by Klaus Badelt
Production
companies
Distributed byPathé
Release date
  • 26 February 2014 (2014-02-26)(France)
Running time
107 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Belgium
LanguageFrench
Budget$36.3 million [1]
Box office$53.4 million [2]

Supercondriaque (also known as Superchondriac) [3] [4] is a 2014 French comedy film written and directed by Dany Boon. [5]

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Plot

Romain Faubert is a mature man who can never hide his hypochondriasis. Romain's fears are profitable for his doctor Dimitri Zvenka. Even so, Dimitri really wants to cure the patient who has no other friend than him. He feels that Romain's actual problem is his loneliness rather than anything else. He subsequently helps Romain in seeking an appropriate female companion, but after a great many futile attempts, he loses hope that Romain could ever succeed. In need of an alternative, he decides to take Romain with him when he goes to an eastern European refugee camp (refugees speak, in fact, distorted version of Russian, Ukrainian and Slovenian, where Dimitri sometimes works on behalf of a non-profit organisation. He believes the sight of people who are really suffering might bring Romain to his senses. Yet Romain finally finds the love of his life when he gets to know Dimitri's sister who confuses him with Anton Miroslav, a certain freedom fighter. The real Anton Miroslav has stolen Romain's ID and is hiding in the apartment of the hypochondriac.

Cast

Reception

The film earned a total of US$56.5 million internationally. [6] L'Obs called it "un succès fou" — a huge success — "despite the critics" and noted that it attracted more cinemagoers in its first week than any film since Nothing to Declare , Boon's 2010 hit. [7]

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