Always Alive

Story

Synopsis

Ange, the mayor of a distant mountain village in Corsica becoming depopulated has launched a drama workshop supposed to give new life to the region. To this end he is to sign a contract with a cabinet minister for whom the villagers are rehearsing a play. It is the very day of the coming of the minister that Ange chooses to pass away, which infuriates his cantankerous wife Lellè. The contract must be signed anyway but how to go about it, mainly with such a family as Ange's: Rinatu, the nationalist, traditionalist son; Sauveur, the former local policeman turned politician; Marcia, Rinatu's daughter, determined to perform the play at any cost; Ange's two wives, the official one: the bad-tempered Lellè, and the unofficial one, the Indian domestic worker of Indian origin? To say nothing of Pantaleone, the deputy mayor, whose wife has been one of Ange's (numerous) mistresses.

Director

Robin Renucci

Writers

Jean-Bernard Pouy, Stéphane Gallet, Pierre Chosson

Language

Corsican

Country

France

Release date

16 June 2007

Ensemble

Cast

• René Jauneau

  Ange Michelangeli

• Angèle Massei

  Lellè Michelangeli

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  Wladimir Yordanoff

  Sauveur Michelangeli

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  Elise Tielrooy

  Carole

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  Pierre Laplace

  Rinatu Michelangeli

• Nathalie Grandhomme

  Anna

• Sarah Jossen

  Marcia

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  Guy Cimino

  Pantaleon

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  François Berlinghi

  Fanfan

• Jo Fondacci

  Tarsigliu