Coming December 5
1992,83
COMÉDIE NOIRE  |  20 MINUTES  |  2023

Lubin, accablé par une dette absurde, affronte une administration kafkaïenne où la logique et la compassion semblent avoir disparu.

Drowning in absurd bureaucracy, Lubin faces a Kafkaesque administration where logic and compassion have vanished.
Coming December 5
1992,831992,83
COMÉDIE NOIRE | 20 MINUTES | 2023

Lubin, accablé par une dette absurde, affronte une administration kafkaïenne où la logique et la compassion semblent avoir disparu.

Drowning in absurd bureaucracy, Lubin faces a Kafkaesque administration where logic and compassion have vanished.

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  • Une promo
  • Tout court
  • Salle Q !
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  • Mensualiser
  • Les charges du ménage
  • Quel que soit

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  • Nul n'est censé ignorer la loi
  • Un écart
  • D'un mois sur l'autre
  • Jouable
  • Ponctionner
  • Un versement
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1992,83
Synopsis (fr)
Lubin conteste une dette injuste de 1 992,83 € auprès d’une administration française labyrinthique. Entre dialogues surréalistes et logique implacable, il découvre l’absurdité d’un système où les individus disparaissent derrière les formulaires. Entre humiliation et résistance, sa lutte devient un portrait cinglant d’une société où la dignité coûte plus cher que la dette elle-même.
Synopsis (en)
Lubin disputes an unfair €1,992.83 debt within the maze of French bureaucracy. Between surreal dialogues and cold logic, he discovers a system where people vanish behind paperwork. Humiliated yet defiant, his struggle paints a biting portrait of a society where dignity costs more than the debt itself.

Director: Colin Van der Straeten; Image: Etienne Fu-Le-Saulnier; Sound: Maxime Berland; Editing: Yohann Granara; Soundtrack: Mathieu Vilbert
Cast: Philippe Bilheur, Anthony Falkowsky, Florence Muller, Jean-Marie Noirot-Cosson