A Self-Made Hero

Un héros très discret (A Self-Made Hero) is a witty and slightly satiric drama about a young Frenchman, Albert Dehousse, who invents a heroic past for himself in WW2. In fact Albert was not in the least connected with the resistance movement, but he creates such a credible fictitious web around himself that everybody - well almost everybody - is convinced of his brave acts during the war.
   A thought-provoking film about how our common history can be manipulated and interpreted.

Directed by:

Jacques Audiard

Written by:
Alain Le Henry and Jacques Audiard from the novel by Jean-Francois Deniau.

Cast:

Mathieu Kassovitz	Albert Dehousse
Jean-Louis Trintignant	Albert Dehousse (old)
Anouk Grinberg	Servane
Sandrine Kiberlain	Yvette
Bernard Bloch	Ernst