EXCLUSIVE: Studio TF1 has boarded sales on Vincent Garenq’s Cannes-selected drama Forsaken (L’Abandon) revisiting the final 11 days of French school teacher Samuel Paty, whose murder triggered by a class on free speech shook France in 2020.
Antoine Reinartz (Beats Per Minute, Anatomy of a Fall) plays Paty in the drama which will debut Out of Competition in Cannes ahead its release by UGC Distribution in France on May 13.
He is joined in the cast by Emmanuelle Bercot (Standing Tall) as the school principal, as well as Nedjim Bouizzoul (Barbès, Little Algérie), Emma Boumali (The Good Teacher) and Azize Kabouche (Marseille).
Paty’s troubles began with a class he gave on free speech in early October 2020, in which he evoked the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris in 2015, in which 12 staff members of the satirical weekly newspaper were killed and another 11 injured.
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