While taking his wife to the maternity hospital so that she can give
birth Thomas rams and kills a young man on the street. Marie-France, the man’s mother, doesn’t recover from the drama. Eight years later, Marie-France becomes Thoma’s new secretary and intrudes dangerously into his life with only one thing in mind: to get at his son..
Christophe Ali - Director
Nicolas Bonilauri - Director
Christophe Ali - Screenplay
Nicolas Bonilauri - Screenplay
Philippe Blasband - Screenplay
Jacques Sotty - Screenplay
Donato Rotunno - Producer
Nicolas Massart - Director of Photography
Ewin Ryckaert - Editing
Jérôme Lemonnier - Music
Christophe Ali and Nicolas Bonilauri met in a local cinema in Gennevilliers. In 1999, they founded the production company Ratquirit Films. Having started with short films they moved on to shoot their first feature film, The Rat. In 2003, they began their second feature film, Wild Camp, subsequently selected in the Panorama Selection of the Berlinale, and released in 2006. The Assistant is their third feature film.