Emmanuel Courcol
Emmanuel Courcol is a French actor, director, and screenwriter born on December 25, 1957.
En fanfare
Diagnosed with leukemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The conductor decides to help them win a regional contest.
Un triomphe
An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot."
Cessez-le-feu
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfare, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa. In the vast territories of Upper Volta he - with the help of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War - try to recruit the villagers as labor for plantations in Ghana.