Alice Battle on France 2: Is this sad television movie from a true story adapted to Nicolas Gob?

This Wednesday, May 21, at 9:10 pm, France 2 broadcasts in the struggle of Alice, new fiction of animal violence. Nicholas Gob and Lucy Lowe Berset, this 90 -minute television film tells the story of Alice, a 16 -year -old teenager who recovered from her mother’s death, two years earlier.

When he is excluded from the high school, his father sends Joshelin to the countryside with his grandmother. On the ground, he meets a calf named a duet, but he must oppose the rigorous reality of the agricultural world.

The young animal is really going to go to slaughter. He is ready to do everything to save him, Alice approaches the group of activists and engages in all the power and excess of his age, far from imagining that this struggle against animal suffering can become the basis for his father’s reconciliation, from their durability to both …

Is the TV film suitable for true history?

In contrast, what we have imagined, Alice’s struggle is not adapted from the true story. To write her script, Michael Olivier was freely inspired by a novel 8865 By Dominic Legrand.

“” “I wanted to talk about animal violence by the author’s discussion“, He explained during the press -brilling, organized in the La Rochelle Fiction Festival.” “He told me that it would be good that one day was a popular movie on TV that talks about this. I read the novel and spoke to Pierre Sporololo, a producer. “

“However, Alice’s combat scenario is very far from the book, but the base and the desire exists. The desire to create a story that affects everyone, but which is still very specific. We wanted to tell you a wonderful family story, but also a political story.»

The author of the script has made some changes to the goodness of fiction. The novel follows the relationship between her mother and her daughter, but Michael Olivier wanted to change the corner and offer a story between her father and her daughter.

»I realize that Father-Kalishvili’s relationship is rarely studied on TV rather than Mother-Kalishvili or Mother-Matththur. Suddenly, I thought there was a lot to say, especially the complexity of a teenager’s dialogue“He added.

Documented story

Even if the story of the Alice battle is based on a novel, the script author still wanted to document himself when writing a script. Thus, he devoted time to a meeting with Normandy’s organic breeder who read the script and was able to give them precious anecdotes.

“” “We have absolutely the opposite of that there is a man whose job is, and which is accompanied by his animals from birth to death“Michael Olivier explained.”There is a scene in the television film where the whole family is at the table and the kids ask what the cow they eat, it really happened to the family of this breeder. “

“They know very well which animal they eat. They know his name. This is what people do not understand and we will never think about. It was important to spend time with the breeder to write Isabel’s character.»

Find Alice’s battle this Wednesday, March 26, from 9:10 pm. In France 2.