The Money Maker (2025)

Original title

L'Affaire Bojarski

Directed by

Jean-Paul Salomé

Genre

history, drama, crime

Country

France

Runtime

2h 08m

Rated

TP

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 132 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Polish refugee in postwar France becomes a master forger, and a police commissioner spends over a decade trying to catch him. The film follows their long pursuit.

tensecerebralmethodicalgrittysuspensefulslow-burngroundedcat-and-mouse

What happens

The Money Maker (French: L'Affaire Bojarski, lit. 'the Bojarski affair') is a 2025 French drama film directed by Jean-Paul Salomé from a screenplay he co-wrote with Bastien Daret. Inspired by the true story of Jan Bojarski, a Polish refugee who became one of postwar France's most accomplished counterfeiters, the film stars Reda Kateb as Bojarski and Bastien Bouillon as the police commissioner who spends over a decade trying to catch him, alongside Sara Giraudeau and Pierre Lottin. The film premiered at the De l'écrit à l'écran festival in Montélimar on 21 September 2025 and went on general release in France, distributed by Le Pacte, on 14 January 2026. It was sold internationally under the English-language title The Money Maker. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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