The Secret Adventures of Gustave Klopp

Gus (Guillaume Canet) suffers from narcolepsy. He falls asleep all the time and has dreams about supermen from comics. Gus experiences vivid dreams during his narcoleptic episodes, which inspire him to create comic book style art of extremely high quality. When Samuel Pupkin, the psychiatrist who runs a group attended by Gus, learns of this, he recalls his own desire to be a comic book artist, instead of following the family tradition of psychiatry, a dream prevented by his lack of artistic talent. Motivated by greed, jealousy, and desire for fame he hatches a plot, involving figure skating assassins, to steal Gus's work and pass it off as his own. The attempt on Gus's life fails but he ends up in a coma.

Keywords

  • Benoît Poelvoorde

Actors

  • Lionel Abelanski
  • Diane Kruger
  • Jean-Pierre Cassel
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Mélanie Doutey
  • Léa Drucker
  • François Berléand
  • Anne Marivin
  • Philippe Lellouche
  • Benoît Poelvoorde
  • Zabou Breitman
  • Guillaume Canet
  • Gilles Lellouche
  • Guillaume Gallienne
  • François Levantal
  • Vincent Rottiers

Director

  • Gilles Lellouche
  • Tristan Aurouet

Comedy


1h 45min


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FR

France
2003
Gus (Guillaume Canet) suffers from narcolepsy. He falls asleep all the time and has dreams about supermen from comics.

Gus (Guillaume Canet) suffers from narcolepsy. He falls asleep all the time and has dreams about supermen from comics.


Gus experiences vivid dreams during his narcoleptic episodes, which inspire him to create comic book style art of extremely high quality. When Samuel Pupkin, the psychiatrist who runs a group attended by Gus, learns of this, he recalls his own desire to be a comic book artist, instead of following the family tradition of psychiatry, a dream prevented by his lack of artistic talent. Motivated by greed, jealousy, and desire for fame he hatches a plot, involving figure skating assassins, to steal Gus's work and pass it off as his own. The attempt on Gus's life fails but he ends up in a coma.

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