Who Is Bernard Tapie?

• 3.5 Documentary
• 2001-09-08
• 56 minutes mins

This documentary tells two stories simultaneously: it's a profile of Bernard Tapie, a wealthy man who rises and falls spectacularly in French society and may be on the rise again; and, it's a look at Marina Zenovich's fascination with Tapie, behaving oddly in spite of her awareness that she's being irrational. Politicians, athletes, friends, companions, and journalists comment on Bernard's charm, his rise to prominence in sports and politics, and his subsequent trouble with the law. Zenovich becomes fixated on her need to interview Tapie, becoming virtually a stalker in her quest.

Starring:

Marina Zenovich (Self) Bernard Tapie (Self) Claude Lelouch (Self) Anne-Laure Plante (Self) Franz-Olivier Giesbert (Self - Editor-in-Chief, Le Figaro) Jean-Xavier Brager (Self - Marseille Resident) Laurent Joffrin (Self - Le Nouvel Observateur) Alan Riding (Self - The New York Times) Valerie Lecasble (Self - Co-Author, Le Flambeur: The True Life of Bernard Tapie) Rona Waddington (Self)

Director:

Marina Zenovich

Writer:

No writer found.