Sympathy for the Devil (2018)

Original title

Sympathie pour le diable

Directed by

Guillaume de Fontenay

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

14A

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 71 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French war correspondent covers the Bosnian War in the 1990s. The film follows him through the conflict as he reports from the front lines.

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What happens

Sympathy for the Devil (French: Sympathie pour le diable) is a 2019 war drama film directed by Guillaume de Fontenay and released in 2019. Based on the book of the same name by French war correspondent Paul Marchand, the film stars Niels Schneider as Marchand covering the Bosnian War in the 1990s. The cast also includes Vincent Rottiers and Ella Rumpf. The film, a coproduction of companies from Canada, France and Belgium, had its Canadian theatrical premiere at the Cinemania film festival on November 11, 2019, before premiering commercially on November 29. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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