Charade has enlisted a number of major international distributors following the critically acclaimed world premiere of Emmanuel Mare’s Man of the Ages, which won the Best Original Screenplay award at Cannes.
The Paris-based sales company sold the French-Belgian co-production drama to Frenetic Films (Switzerland), Filmin (Spain), Alamode Film (Germany), I Wonder Pictures (Italy), One From the Heart (Greece), Leopardo Filmes (Portugal), MCF (Adriatic and Bulgaria), Mozinet (Hungary), Mars Films (Turkey) and New Cinema. (Israel) and Falcon (Indonesia). Condor Distribution will release the film in France on September 30th, with Cineart handling distribution in Belgium.
“A Man of Our Time” has emerged as one of the standout titles in this year’s Cannes competition. In addition to the screenplay award, the film also won the film award for art and essay, received a special award from the jury at the Citoyennet Awards, and also won the CST Award for Best Artist Technician.
The film, starring Swann Arlo (Anatomy of the Fall) and Sandrine Blanquet, is inspired by the life of Mare’s own great-grandfather. Arlo will play Henri Maar, an engineer and aspiring writer. He arrives in Vichy France with a political manuscript that he hopes will secure his influence within the new government and save himself and his country from collapse.
Set during World War II, the drama examines the mechanisms of cooperation under the Vichy regime through the lens of a man whose ambition and moral weakness made him complicit in the persecution and deportation of Jews. The film is deeply personal to Mahle, who describes the project as an attempt to confront a difficult chapter in his own family history.
Produced by France’s Quidam and Belgium’s Michigan Film, A Man of His Time was co-produced by Les Films Pelleas, Les Films de Pierre, Unite, France 2, Condor, Ink Connection, RTBF, Be TV, Orange and Proximus.
The project will be Mahre’s second feature film, following the acclaimed drama Zero Fax Given, which he co-directed with Julie Luxtre and premiered at Cannes Critics Week in 2021 and won the Gunn Foundation Award.
