Benoît Delépine

Benoît Delépine

Born: August 30, 1958
in Saint-Quentin, France
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Benoît Delépine (30 August 1958 –) is a French comedian and film director. He is known for his satirical activities on TV channel Canal+.

Director of the TV program Guignols de l'info for many years, he currently writes TV programs about the fictional country of Groland. He also plays the cynical journalist-reporter Mickael Kael.

In the cinema, Delépine has written and performed in two films. Mickael Kael contre la World News Company, a chess commercial, reprising two elements of the fictional career of the director: his role as a reporter for Groland and the World Company, which he contributed to create for Les Guignols.

In 2004, Aaltra, which he wrote, directed, and starred in with Gustave de Kervern enjoyed critical success. The two companions from the Groland adventure wrote and directed it as a road movie where two enemies travel the roads of northern France and Finland following an accident. Also with Gustave Kervern, he has directed and starred in Avida, which was awarded screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. His upcoming film Mammuth was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

He is a supporter of Attac.

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Movies for Benoît Delépine...

Dada
Title: Dada
Released: February 14, 2025
Type: Movie
The owner of a failing circus has to cope with the return of her son after he is released from the psychiatric hospital with complete loss of memory.
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En Marche vers l'Effondrement !
Title: En Marche vers l'Effondrement !
Character: Sbire Mr Sweet
Released: March 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Disappointed by leftists politics this last few years, PAP'40 of the Church of the Holy $aint Con$umption decide to run for presidential election of 2022 to fix the country. He meets his electorate and other candidates to spread the word : Work, Obey, Consume !
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30ème Comité Central du Groland
Title: 30ème Comité Central du Groland
Released: December 7, 2022
Type: Movie
30 years ago, Jules-Edouard Moustic and his team imagined Groland, a fictional country, the scene of a series of humorous programs aimed at parodying national and international news.
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Title: A Very Ordinary World
Character: Le père de Romain
Released: June 6, 2022
Type: TV
Romain, 18, is a sociology student. In rebellion against his native environment and imprisoned in a toxic romantic relationship with a woman who has total control over his life, he thinks he can find in the pornographic adventure a way of emancipation. Instead he discovers a very ordinary environment.
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En même temps
Title: En même temps
Character: Le photographe animalier
Released: April 6, 2022
Type: Movie
On the eve of a vote to greenlight the construction of a leisure centre where a primal forest currently stands, an unashamedly right-wing mayor sets out to trap his ecologist opponent. But both will end up being outwitted by a group of feminist activists who will confront the two men with their own contradictions, once and for all.
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Plus belle l'eau de vie
Title: Plus belle l'eau de vie
Character: Le Comte de Kael
Released: January 3, 2021
Type: Movie
The life and adventures of random people in a shit hole of Groland.
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Sébastien Tellier: Many Lives
Title: Sébastien Tellier: Many Lives
Character: Self
Released: February 13, 2020
Type: Movie
Since his first album, French musician Sébastien Tellier never ceased to surprise, amuse, and even bother; all without getting lost along the way. The constantly renewed authenticity of his musical universe is still one of the strongest in contemporary pop scene.
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Mords-les !
Title: Mords-les !
Character: L'archer
Released: January 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Follow Brigitte Fontaine as she wanders in the streets of Morlaix.
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Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Title: Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Character: Self - Filmmaker
Released: January 25, 2019
Type: Movie
An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life.
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Top 25 Groland
Title: Top 25 Groland
Released: April 14, 2018
Type: Movie
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Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel
Title: Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel
Character: Self
Released: October 18, 2017
Type: Movie
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Les Belges ça ose tout
Title: Les Belges ça ose tout
Character: Self
Released: June 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Following in the wake of Benoît Poelvoorde and Philippe Geluck, comedians, actors and other Belgian singers have established themselves in France in recent years, in the media and on stage. But, if we appreciate them today, this was not always the case. In this documentary, director Olivier Monssens acts as the spokesperson for his compatriots. Through testimonies and delicious archive images, he returns to the not-so-distant era when our neighbors were considered friendly but somewhat idiotic people. The film is also an opportunity to understand what characterizes the Belgian spirit by focusing on some of its facets: humor and its famous local variation, self-deprecation, cinema and music.
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Groland le gros métrage
Title: Groland le gros métrage
Character: Charles Malard
Released: December 19, 2015
Type: Movie
Noël and Guy, two young Frincheux girls, tired of their condition of eternal unemployed interim, decided to become the Steve Jobs and Larry Page of the Presidency Grown.
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Near Death Experience
Title: Near Death Experience
Character: Le collègue Orange 1
Released: September 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Paul, a call center employee, is completely burnt out. One Friday 13, a television news report seems to be a signal that he must take action. Determined to give concrete expression to his gesture, he flees to the mountain, where he'll experience a unique event.
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Les 20 ans de Groland
Title: Les 20 ans de Groland
Released: November 29, 2012
Type: Movie
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Groland - 15 ans d'âge... bête
Title: Groland - 15 ans d'âge... bête
Character: Michael Kael
Released: November 5, 2007
Type: Movie
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Avida
Title: Avida
Character: L'homme à la tête de scotch
Released: September 13, 2006
Type: Movie
The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last wishes.
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Aaltra
Title: Aaltra
Character: L'employé
Released: June 23, 2004
Type: Movie
In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their rage on each other but on the manufacturer of the tractor, in Helsinki. So get ready for a hilarious wheelchair road movie.
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GrolandSat
Title: GrolandSat
Character: Various Characters
Released: January 13, 2003
Type: Movie
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Groland - 100 ans déjà
Title: Groland - 100 ans déjà
Character: Michael Kael
Released: December 30, 2002
Type: Movie
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Nouvelles neuves du monde de Moustic
Title: Nouvelles neuves du monde de Moustic
Character: Michael Kael
Released: April 8, 2002
Type: Movie
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Les Guignols de l'info - L’Exclusive des 10 ans des Guignols
Title: Les Guignols de l'info - L’Exclusive des 10 ans des Guignols
Character: Self, Auteur 1988/96
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
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Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie
Title: Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie
Character: La tête coupée
Released: January 22, 1999
Type: Movie
Professor Choron recounts with his memories as a child of a barrier guard, the 2nd World War with its horrors and the trains he saw during those years leaving for Germany or coming from there, full of French or German soldiers, in conquest or in rout according to the period
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Title: Tout le monde en parle
Character: Self
Released: September 19, 1998
Type: TV
Tout le monde en parle is a French talk show broadcast on France 2 from September 5, 1998 to July 8, 2006. It was hosted by Thierry Ardisson and produced by Catherine Barma. During its first season, the show took the form of societal debates; it was in September 1999 that it was re-formatted into a talk-show. The show features guests who are making news at the moment, including actors, writers, singers, politicians and athletes. Guests discuss their life and engage in thematic interviews. The show gradually acquired a provocative reputation, notably since the host does not hesitate to ask political guests questions about their private and sexual lives. With Thierry Ardisson as the main host, he was first accompanied by Laurent Ruquier and Linda Hardy. Later, he turned to duos Éric and Ramzy, then Kad and Olivier. Finally, he opted for comedian Lauren Baffie as co-host, until the end of the show.
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Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
Title: Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
Character: Michel Chel alias Michael Kael
Released: February 18, 1998
Type: Movie
A naive French reporter is sent to an African town to cover a sensational news story, unaware that it has been faked by an international news giant in the hopes of getting the US president re-elected for a third term.
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À l'arraché
Title: À l'arraché
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A lousy thief steals a car being washed in a gas station. Unfortunately for him, the owner of the vehicle has unsuspected physical resources.
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Title: Groland
Character: Mickael Kael
Released: September 5, 1992
Type: TV
Parodic news programme focusing on the fictional country Groland (full name: Presipality of Groland), airing on French television channel Canal+.