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Michael Kael vs. the World News Company is a french film of genre Comedy with Benoît Delépine

Michael Kael vs. the World News Company (1998)

Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
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Length 1h30
OriginFrance
Genres Comedy
Rating43% 2.190122.190122.190122.190122.19012

Michael Kael contre la World News Company est un film français réalisé par Christophe Smith, sorti en 1998.

Synopsis

Michael Kael est le correspondant permanent à Paris d'une grande chaîne d'information américaine, la World News Company. Mais un jour, le patron de cette grande chaîne l'envoie en Afrique, afin de faire un reportage sur un festival de danse franco-africaine. Michael Kael se rend rapidement compte, ainsi que les autres journalistes, que ce festival n'est qu'un prétexte, et qu'il est le pion d'une énorme manipulation médiatique, dont l'objectif est politique. Mais son incapacité et son manque de talent, d'un point de vue journalistique, vont faire rater l'opération, car il déclenchera la panique dans des villes du monde entier, à l'approche de l'an 2000.

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