Une zone à défendre

Une zone à défendre is an upcoming French romantic drama film written and directed by Romain Cogitore, starring François Civil and Lyna Khoudri. This is the first French original Disney+ film and is scheduled to be released in France and around the world in the streaming platform on 7 July 2023.[1][3]

Une zone à défendre
FrenchUne zone à défendre
Directed byRomain Cogitore
Written by
Produced by
  • Hugo Sélignac
  • Nicolas Dumont
Starring
CinematographyJulien Hirsch
Edited byFlorent Vassault
Music byMathieu Lamboley
Production
company
Chi-Fou-Mi Productions
Distributed byDisney+
Release date
  • 7 July 2023 (2023-07-07)[1]
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget€7,4 million[2]

Plot

Greg is an undercover police lieutenant who must collect information on eco-activists and infiltrates a movement that fights to save a forest from the building of a dam. There he meets Myriam, a zadist, and they fall in love on the Zone to Defend.

Cast
  • François Civil as Greg
  • Lyna Khoudri as Myriam
  • Félix Bossuet as Fissou
  • Nathalie Richard as Severine
  • Nico Rogner as Niko
  • Oona von Maydell as Jana
  • Mona Walravens as Lucia
  • Manon Bresch as Fred
  • Candice Bouchet as Bene
  • Bellamine Abdelmalek as Naël
  • Céline Carrère as Catherine
  • Giacomo Fadda as Tonio
  • Arnaud Churin as Hubert
  • Hadi Rassi as Zap

Production

Development

Director and screenwriter Romain Cogitore announced the project (then-titled Zad) in an interview for French newspaper Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace on 26 February 2016.[4] The screenplay was co-written by Cogitore, Thomas Bidegain and Catherine Paillé,[5][6] and it was inspired by a real-life scandal that happened in England[6] and hit the European press in 2011 and revealed long-term police missions of eco-infiltrators, some of them even had children with activists before disappearing.[7][8][9]

On 11 July 2022, Disney+ announced the shooting of its first original French film, Une zone à défendre, directed by Romain Cogitore with François Civil and Lyna Khoudri in the lead roles.[10] The film is set to be released on Disney+ in France and around the world in 2023.[10][3] Cogitore had previously directed Civil in the 2011 World War II drama Nos résistances.[11] Une zone à défendre is the third collaboration between Civil and Khoudri, who had worked together on the French dubbing of the animated film Lightyear in 2022, and also co-starred in the two-part saga The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady, both scheduled to be released in 2023.[12] Mathieu Lamboley composed the film's original score.[13]

Cogitore explained the film in a press release:

With 'A Zone to Defend', I want to place environmental and political issues within the framework of a love story, to place myself in a double cinematographic genre - the undercover film and melodrama - to recount a moment in our contemporary history, which zadists and collapsologists call "the collapse of the old world".[10]

Filming

Principal photography started on 13 June 2022 and wrapped on 12 August 2022.[14][15] Filming took place in Paris, Essonne, Marseille, Normandy and Melun.[14][16]

Marketing

Disney France unveiled on Twitter the first image from the film with François Civil and Lyna Khoudri on 12 November 2022.[17] On 29 January 2023, Disney France unveiled a new image of Civil on the set of the film to celebrate the actor's birthday.[18] A new still featuring François Civil and Lyna Khoudri dancing at a party was unveiled on 5 May 2023.[19] The release date and a new set of film stills were unveiled by Disney on 12 May 2023.[1]

References
  1. "Le premier film original français Disney+ « UNE ZONE À DÉFENDRE » arrive le 7 juillet". The Walt Disney Company France (in French). 12 May 2023. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  2. "Recueil des actes administratifs du département des Vosges" (PDF). vosges.fr (in French). 4 April 2020. p. 411. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  3. Keslassy, Elsa (13 July 2022). "Disney+ Teams With 'Stronghold' Producer for First French Film Original". Variety. Archived from the original on 6 December 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  4. Vigneron, Philippe (26 February 2016). "Clément Cogitore vu par Romain". DNA - les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (in French). Archived from the original on 27 February 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  5. Marmiesse, Anna (24 June 2019). "Interview de Romain Cogitore, réalisateur de "L'Autre continent"". Lecteurs Anonyme (in French). Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  6. Tardit, Patrick (2 June 2019). "Romain Cogitore nous embarque vers « L'autre continent »". Infodujour.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  7. "A Zone to Defend | TorinoFilmLab". TorinoFilmLab. 30 November 2016. Archived from the original on 8 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  8. Tweedie, Neil (15 January 2011). "Eco infiltrator Mark Kennedy: The great betrayal". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 30 May 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  9. Evans, Rob; Lewis, Paul (20 January 2012). "Undercover police had children with activists". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 19 November 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  10. "« UNE ZONE À DÉFENDRE », le premier film Original français Disney+". The Walt Disney Company France (in French). 11 July 2022. Archived from the original on 24 February 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  11. Sanchez, Amandine (12 July 2022). "Disney+ annonce son premier film français avec deux stars montantes du cinéma". Télé-Loisirs (in French). Archived from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  12. Orozco, Edouard (13 July 2022). "François Civil et Lyna Khoudri seront les stars du premier film original français de Disney Plus". Première (in French). Archived from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  13. "Mathieu Lamboley to Score Romain Cogitore's 'Une zone à défendre'". Film Music Reporter. 28 December 2022. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  14. "Une zone à défendre (aka ZAD) / A Zone to Defend (WT)". Crew United. Archived from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  15. Corvisy, Aurélie (24 May 2022). "Essonne : Appel aux figurants pour le prochain film de Romain Cogitore tourné à Auvers-Saint-Georges". Le Républicain de l'Essonne (in French). Archived from the original on 28 June 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  16. Lacaille, William (25 July 2022). "Seine-et-Marne. Participez à un casting pour jouer dans le prochain film avec François Civil". Actu.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  17. Disney+FR (12 November 2022). "Découvrez une première image de Lyna Khoudri et François Civil sur le tournage du film original français, Une zone à défendre, bientôt en streaming sur #DisneyPlus". Twitter (in French). Archived from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  18. Disney+FR (29 January 2023). "Contrairement à lui, ce n'est pas votre anniversaire, mais nous avons un cadeau pour vous : une nouvelle image de François Civil sur le tournage d'Une Zone à Défendre, bientôt en streaming sur #DisneyPlus". Twitter (in French). Archived from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  19. Moreno, Nicolas (5 May 2023). "Vous les aimiez en D'Artagnan et Constance ? Civil et Khoudri seront bientôt flic et zadiste sur Disney+". Les Inrockuptibles (in French). Archived from the original on 6 May 2023. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
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