It’s a Netflix hit: Pierre Nini in adventurer mode in a romantic and epic film

Are you a fan of Pierre Nini? Want to see it evolve into an epic adventure movie? So head over to Netflix to discover the romantic The Promise of Dawn, a feature film currently enjoying great success on the platform!

The Promise at Dawn, released in cinemas in 2017, traces the extraordinary life of Romain Garry, from his difficult childhood in Poland, to his adolescence under the Nice sun, to his stint as a pilot in Africa during World War II. Determined to live a thousand lives, become a great man and a famous writer, he owes it to his mother Nina, played on screen by Charlotte Gainsbourg.

The Promise at Dawn is a big screen adaptation of the 1960 novel by Romain Gary. “To me, Gary was first and foremost a romantic, mysterious character, her husband John Seberg And the orchestra of this wonderful literary mystification that was the work of Emile Ajar.– says director Eric Barbier.

“Gary is double, triple, multiple”he continues. “Ambassador, filmmaker, novelist often hides under various pseudonyms, he is Polish, Russian, French, Jewish, whose mother rushes to the Pope at the slightest disturbance, and who regularly describes himself as Oriental when he is not Tatar…”

Eric Barbier and his screenwriter Marie Einard faced a multitude of scenes to adapt the epic adventure novel that traces the 20 years of Romain Garry and his mother’s life. “vertigo”in the words of the former. Thus, they had to find a form of screenplay that would allow them to keep the essence of the novel and reduce it by two-thirds.

Filmed over fourteen weeks in five countries, The Promise at Dawn was a huge success in theaters with over 1.1 million viewers. How about (re)discovering this charming adventure on Netflix today?

“The Promise of Dawn”: extraordinary filming