7.065 minSeason 1 • Episode 7
LatestAs legal woes cast a shadow on his lavish wedding, Bernard contemplates ways to protect the life he worked tirelessly to build — at any and all cost.
A relentlessly ambitious working-class man becomes one of France's most controversial public figures in this fictionalized biopic about Bernard Tapie.
Acting
Laurent Lafitte disappears into Tapie's manic charisma and terrifying fragility.
Direction
Séguéla shoots the 80s like a fever dream you can't wake from.
Production
The era recreation is so lush you'll smell the cigarettes and cocaine.
Creators
Tristan Séguéla, Olivier Demangel
Laurent Lafitte
Bernard Tapie
Joséphine Japy
Dominique Tapie
Patrick d'Assumçao
Jean-Baptiste Tapie
Ophélia Kolb
Michèle Tapie
Camille Chamoux
Nicole
David Talbot
Le juge Eric de Montgolfier
Sarah Suco
Antoine Reinartz
Maître Fabien Bogaert
Hakim Jemili
Farid Bentarek
Alexandre Blazy
Ambulance man
Fabrice Luchini
Marcel Loiseau
Sébastien Chassagne
Julien
Camille Le Gall
Advisor Coupart
Romain Francisco
Referee of the VA-OM match
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real Bernard Tapie died during production; the series became an unintentional elegy to a man who'd have hated being remembered this honestly.
Tapie embodied a specifically French fantasy: the banlieue kid who forces the elite to respect him, then becomes everything he once despised. The show captures why France both worshipped and loathed him.
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