After the success of ‘HPI’, director Mona Achachi returns to TF1 with a poignant TV film about illiteracy directed by singer Kenji Girak and airing at the start of the school year.
After an impressive run in the second season of HPI, director Mona Achache (also known for Balthazar and Course Vaillants) returns to TF1 with Champion, a moving TV film about illiteracy directed by successful singer Kenji Giraki.
While the next detective series Aim for My Heart with Claire Keim will soon be broadcast on the channel, this time TF1 will reveal the broadcast date of its first original TV movie for the start of the school year. Viewers will have the opportunity to discover Kenji Giraki in his first role on the small screen on September 5 at 21:10.
At the age of 24, Zack (played by Kenji Giraki) looks like a young man who is feeling good. His secret is well kept. A talented carpenter, he built treehouses with his father. But his passion is boxing, which he teaches voluntarily.
Zack plans to move in with Marjorie (Aurelie Pons) when his father takes a bad fall and falls into a coma. Now he has to take care of the small family business alone. The flaws he thought he had overcome resurface, and as newcomer Ines (Hananeh El Youssef) enters his life, her secret is in danger of being revealed at any moment: Zack is illiterate.
Zack teaches boxing.
Will he be able to admit his disability to his loved ones? Will he manage to take care of the family business without his father by his side? If Zack has managed to hide his disability from his relatives until now, the patriarch’s hospitalization unfortunately risks putting everything into question.
Alongside Kenji Girac, viewers will be able to find actors who have already appeared on the front page, such as Aurel Ponce (Here It All Begins), Jean-Michel Tinivel (Alice Nevers, Simon Coleman), Hananeh El Youssef (Les Bracelets). Blushes), Keanu Peyran (Clam). The director turned to François Creton (Engrenages) and Lubna Azabal (Braqueurs) to play Zack’s parents.
Written by the duo Sabrina Compeyron and Olivier Gorcy, known for the heartbreaking drama M’abandonne pas with Michaël Youn, broadcast on TF1, The Champion promises to be a start-of-the-school-year TV movie event sure to blow viewers’ minds. .
Discover the champion on September 5 from 21:10 on TF1.
Source: allocine
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