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Doors of Glory is a french film of genre Drama directed by Christian Merret-Palmair with Benoît Poelvoorde
Doors of Glory (2001)
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Add to a movie listLes Portes de la gloire est une tragi-comédie française réalisée par Christian Merret-Palmair, sortie en 2001.
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Dans le Nord de la France, Régis Demanet est commercial à Pégase Diffusion, une petite société de démarchage à domicile. Ce chef tyrannique d'une escouade de VRP voit débarquer sous ses ordres Jérôme Le Tallec, le futur gendre du patron. Le nouvel arrivant tente de s'intégrer et devient le témoin des méthodes peu orthodoxes de ces mercenaires du porte-à-porte.Actors
Benoît Poelvoorde
(Regis Demanet)
Julien Boisselier
(Jérôme Le Tallec)
Étienne Chicot
(Patrick Sergent)
Yvon Back
(Michel Moineau)
Michel Duchaussoy
(Balzac)
Jean-Luc Bideau
(Paul Beaumont)
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