Une zone à défendre
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Greg is an undercover police lieutenant who must collect information on eco-activists and infiltrates a movement at a ZAD (Zone to Defend), that is fighting to save a forest from the building of a dam. There he meets Myriam, an environmental activist known as “zadist”, and they fall in love. 18 months later, Greg returns to the ZAD in an official mission and finds out that Myriam had a baby.
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Greg is an undercover police lieutenant who must collect information on eco-activists and infiltrates a movement at a ZAD (Zone to Defend), that is fighting to save a forest from the building of a dam. There he meets Myriam, an environmental activist known as “zadist”, and they fall in love. 18 months later, Greg returns to the ZAD in an official mission and finds out that Myriam had a baby.
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About Une zone à défendre Movie
- This is Disney+’s first original French film.
- The film was inspired by a real-life scandal that happened in England and hit the European press in 2011, revealing long-term police missions of eco-infiltrators, some of them even had children with activists before disappearing.
- The project was developed through the TorinoFilmLab Script & Pitch programme in 2016 under the title A Zone to Defend.
- Principal photography started on 13 June 2022 and wrapped on 12 August 2022. Filming took place in Paris, Essonne, Marseille, Normandy and Melun.
- Nearly 200 extras acted in the film, and nearly two-thirds of the extras were real Zadists.
- Director Romain Cogitore spent a lot of time at a ZAD (Zone to Defend in France) living with environmental activists in order to make the film more credible. Cogitore had the permission of the activists and explained the project to them.
- This film, whose English title is A Place to Fight For, is the third collaboration between François Civil and Lyna Khoudri, who had worked together on the French dubbing of the animated film Lightyear in 2022, and also co-starred in the two-part saga The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady, both released in 2023.
- This is the second collaboration between director Romain Cogitore and actor François Civil. The first was the World War II drama 15 Lads (2011), Cogitore’s first feature film.
- The first poster was unveiled by Disney+ on 6 June 2023. The trailer was unveiled on 17 June 2023. A clip from the film was released on 5 July 2023.
- The film was released in English-speaking countries as A Place to Fight For.
- According to the streaming aggregator JustWatch, A Place to Fight For was the 5th most streamed film across all platforms in France during the weekend of 8-9 July 2023.
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