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Fabrice Luchini [Jean-Michel Rouche]

Camille Cottin [Joséphine Pick]

Alice Isaaz [Daphné Despero]

Bastien Bouillon [Frédéric Koska]

Josiane Stoleru [Madeleine Pick]

Astrid Whettnall [Inès De Crécy]

Marc Fraize [Jean-Pierre Gourvec]

Marie-Christine Orry [Magali Roze]

Florence Muller [Brigitte Rouche] 

Vincent Winterhalter [Gérard Despero]

Annie Mercier [Bénédicte Le Floch]

Hanna Shygulla [Ludmila Blavitsky]

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In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor discovers a novel that she considers a masterpiece. It was written by a certain Henri Pick, a cook who died two years earlier and who, according to his widow, had never read a book in his life or written anything but a shopping list. Did he have a secret life? When the book becomes a huge best-seller, Jean-Michel Rouche, a skeptical and stubborn literary critic, teams up with Joséphine, Pick’s daughter, to unravel the mystery. What if this story was only a conspiracy?

Rémi Bezançon (Paris, 1971) studied at the film school École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (ESRA) in Paris and the École du Louvre. He made his first short film Little Italie in 1997. Made in 2008, his second feature film The First Day of the Rest of Your Life, was a huge success and was nominated for two César Awards. Zarafa marks his first animated project.