It will undoubtedly be one of the series events of the season: Netflix has just released the first images of Tapie, its mini-series about the life of “Wonderman” Bernard Tapie, which will be available on September 13 on the streaming platform.
Starring Laurent Lafitte in the title role, Tapp, created by director Tristan Seguela (16 or Almost) and novelist and screenwriter Olivier Demangel, depicts the romantic and fraught fate of an extraordinary public figure who knew everything. From singer to businessman, from minister to prisoner, from success to failure.
“All my life I go straight ahead, without looking back, without looking in the mirror”assures Bernard Tap by Laurent Lafitte in the first seconds of the trailer, which lays the foundation for the seven episodes of the series: the story of the excessive ambitions of a businessman thirty-one years into the business. The world in 1966, before his arrest in 1997, buying Olympique de Marseille and dreaming of politics.
Alongside Laurent Lafitte, who seems to be cut out for the role and lends his charisma and energy to Bernard Tapie, Netflix subscribers will find Josephine Japp in the skin of Dominique, whose hero meets in the series and who will become the wife of his life, but also Patrick D’Assumsão, Sara Succo , Antoine Reinartz, Ophelia Colby, Hakim Cemil, Camille Chamo, Alexandre Blaze and Fabrice Luchin.
Tapi, presented at the Canneseries last April, which Bernard Tapi did not voice until his death and caused the indignation of his relatives, already promises to be talked about a lot this fall, because in addition to being interested in life. A person who has never left the French indifferent, he gives freedom to reality. Director Tristan Seguela admitted that everything in the series is “50% true”.
The major biopic, Tapie, will be followed in the coming months by other original French fiction on Netflix, such as Furies, with Marina Fois, Anthracite, a profile of fans of Hatik and Camille Louis by the creator of Robert, or even La Cage. , a fiction with an MMA background, was recently announced by Frank Gastambide.
See you on September 13th on Netflix to discover seven episodes of the Tapie mini-series with Laurent Lafitte as Bernard Tapie.
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