“Never put up with someone else’s suffering”: Abe Pierre said at Cannes 2023.

“I know when Winter 54 came out, he said, ‘I don’t want to make a movie about me, I want to make a movie about my action.’ In L’Abbé Pierre, une vie de combats, Frédéric Tellier, Benjamin Lavernet slips into the iconic beret of the man who was “the voice of the voice” and fought throughout his life to help the poor, especially in the cold winter of 1954. which led to his famous call for generosity.

All invested, body tired but eyes still full of healthy anger, the actor finds here his first “big first role”. One who will surely introduce the general public to this wonder of La Comédie Française, who has appeared on screen in Radiostars, The Taste of Wonders, The Meaning of Party and My Unknown.

“There is a great desire for the film to remain in people’s hearts. The goal is to open the blinds, to make them porous again in the good sense of the word, to the suffering of others and, above all, never to get used to the suffering of others.” he explains at the AlloCiné microphone.

“I think Abbe Pierre’s legacy is great through Emmaus, through the work of the Abbe Pierre Foundation. A film about the story of the century and such an intimate portrait of this gentleman, which is absolutely extraordinary, is a way to continue the fight.”.

The feature film, which is expected to hit theaters on November 15, also stars Emmanuel Berko. In the role of Lucie Kutazi, she highlights the one who accompanied Abbé Pierre in his fight against poverty for more than forty years. An indomitable soul, a loyal right-hand man and a heroine who agreed to remain in the shadow of myth, she finally enters the memories with this film.