Supercondriaque

2014 film

Eric Hubert
Jérôme Seydoux

Starring

Kad Merad
Dany Boon
Alice Pol

CinematographyRomain WindingEdited byMonica ColemanMusic byKlaus Badelt

Production
companies

Pathé
Canal+

Distributed byPathé

Release date

26 February 2014 (2014-02-26) (France)

Running time

107 minutesCountries

France
Belgium

LanguageFrenchBudget$36.3 million ^[1]Box office$53.4 million ^[2]

Supercondriaque (also known as Superchondriac)^[3]^[4] is a 2014 French comedy film written and directed by Dany Boon.^[5]

Plot

Romain Faubert is a mature man who can never hide his hypochondriasis. Romain's fears are profitable for his doctor Dimitri Zvenka. Even so, Dimitri really wants to cure the patient who has no other friend than him. He feels that Romain's actual problem is his loneliness rather than anything else. He subsequently helps Romain in seeking an appropriate female companion, but after a great many futile attempts, he loses hope that Romain could ever succeed. In need of an alternative, he decides to take Romain with him when he goes to an eastern European refugee camp (refugees speak, in fact, distorted version of Russian, Ukrainian and Slovenian, where Dimitri sometimes works on behalf of a non-profit organisation. He believes the sight of people who are really suffering might bring Romain to his senses. Yet Romain finally finds the love of his life when he gets to know Dimitri's sister who confuses him with Anton Miroslav, a certain freedom fighter. The real Anton Miroslav has stolen Romain's ID and is hiding in the apartment of the hypochondriac.

Cast

Dany Boon as Romain Faubert
Alice Pol as Anna Zvenka
Kad Merad as Dr. Dimitri Zvenka
Jean-Yves Berteloot as Anton Miroslav
Judith El Zein as Norah Zvenka
Marthe Villalonga as Dimitri's mother
Valérie Bonneton as Isabelle
Bruno Lochet as Policeman in the service of the immigration bureau
Jérôme Commandeur as Guillaume Lempreur
Jonathan Cohen as Marc
Vanessa Guide as Manon
Marion Barby as Nina Zvenka
Camille Chamoux as Dimitri's secretary
Étienne Chicot as Professor

Reception

The film earned a total of US$56.5 million internationally.^[6] L'Obs called it "un succès fou" — a huge success — "despite the critics" and noted that it attracted more cinemagoers in its first week than any film since Nothing to Declare, Boon's 2010 hit.^[7]

References

^ JP. "Supercondriaque (2014)- JPBox-Office". www.jpbox-office.com.
^ "Supercondriaque".
^ "'Superchondriac' Continues Boffo Run in France". Variety. 3 March 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
^ "Superchondriac". Pathé. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
^ "Superchondriac". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2014-05-11.
^ Nancy Tartaglione and David Bloom (January 10, 2015). "'Transformers 4′ Tops 2014's 100 Highest-Grossing International Films – Chart". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 10, 2015.
^ ""Supercondriaque" de Dany Boon : un succès fou malgré les critiques, comment l'expliquer ?".