CHEFS

North America Premiere • TV Mini-Series • Drama • France, 2015

Blu-ray • Color • Season 1 - Episodes 1&2 (2x52’)

Directed by: Arnaud Malherbe

Written by: Arnaud Malherbe, Marion Festraëts with the collaboration of Yann Le Nivet, Claire Lemaréchal and Stéphanie Tchou-Cotta

Created by: Marion Festraëts, Arnaud Malherbe

Produced by: Xavier Matthieu

Cast: Clovis Cornillac (The Chef), Hugo Becker (Romain), Anne Charrier (Delphine),  Nicolas Gob (Yann), Robin Renucci (Monsieur Édouard),  Annie Cordy ( Léonis),  Étienne Chicot (Walter),  Joyce Bibring ( Charlène),  Zinedine Soualem (Karim),  Anthony Pho (Woo),  Jean Bediebe (Souleimane),  Laurent Menoret (JC) and  Juliette (Angélique) 

International Sales: CALT Distribution

Original Broadcast: France 2, February 11, 2015

This ambitious drama developed by Arnaud Malherbe and Marion Festraëts drops the gloss of reality-show cooking competitions to take a grittier look at the rivalries and suspense behind the closed doors of a professional kitchen. Clovis Cornillac – whose debut feature Blind Date will screen in a World Premiere at COLCOA 2015 – stars as a man so devoted to his kitchen that he is only known as The Chef. An intensely temperamental man under constant pressure, The Chef nevertheless reserves a spot each year on his staff for an ex-convict, in deference to his own youthful mistakes. When Romain, a 25 year-old former fraudster played by Gossip Girl regular Hugo Becker, steps into the kitchen as a dishwasher, he awakens to the world: to the art of cooking, to love, and to his struggle to belong. And he will soon become indispensible to The Chef in ways that no one would have suspected.

Episode 1: Romain joins the “kitchen brigade”, and is put to the test in this surprisingly regimented system. Episode 2: Following a fire he starts in order to sabotage his own restaurant, The Chef has to deal with a new manager sent in to oversee the finances.