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The Belgian filmmaker Michaël R. Roskam (Sint-Truiden, 1972) will return to the San Sebastián Festival to close the Official Selection of the 74th edition out of competition with Le Faux Soir, which will have its European premiere following its screening in Toronto. Roskam who, with The Drop (2014) won the Jury Prize for Best Screenplay, now recreates one of the most curious episodes of the Belgian Resistance movement during the 2nd World War, a clandestine operation that turned the press into a weapon against the nazi occupiers.
Based on the book Le "faux" Soir, 9 novembre 1943, by Marie Istas, the cast of the film boasts Arieh Worthalter, Mélanie Thierry, Karim Leklou, Mara Taquin, Bouli Lanners, Julien Frison and François Damiens, among other actors. The story is set in 1943, when, having occupied Belgium, the nazis turn the national newspaper Le Soir into their propaganda tool. To raise the spirits of the Belgian people, a group of Resistance fighters comes up with a wild idea, to print a fake edition of the newspaper mocking the occupier in what some historians consider to be the first ever media hack.
Michaël R. Roskam worked as a journalist for the Dutch language newspaper De Morgen. He wrote and directed short films such as Carlo (2004) and The One Thing to Do (2005). He made his feature film debut with Rundskop / Bullhead (2011) which, following its premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlin Festival, earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best International Film and his inclusion on Variety’s Ten Directors to watch list.
In 2014, The Drop, starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and James Gandolfini, competed in the San Sebastián Festival’s Official Selection and won the Jury Prize for Best Screenplay, while Le Fidèle / Racer and the Jailbird (2017) screened in Venice out of competition and was selected to represent Belgium at the Academy Awards. In 2021 he directed the first three episodes of the miniseries Black Bird, starring Taron Egerton, which received Emmy and Golden Globe award nominations.
1943. The Nazis occupy Belgium and have turned the national daily Le Soir into their propaganda tool. With 1918 Armistice Day commemorations forbidden, a group of Resistance fighters comes up with a wild idea: what if, to lift the spirits of the Belgian people, they could print a fake edition of Le Soir? Same paper, same nameplate, same format, but packed with articles mocking the occupier. A true story. A fake newspaper. The world's first media hack.
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