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Sympathy for the Devil (2018)

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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
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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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