For the Love of the Game

Name: For the Love of the Game
Director: Clément Bompart
Genre: Drama
Released: 2023-06-23
Cast: Joseph Treacy, Clément Bompart, Hamza Zerrouk, Serihy Miltchevsky, Ghjulia Van Muylders

2023 · 17 min · Drama

John lives for football and will do anything to make a career from it, even if it means facing the prejudices of the changing room.

Directed by Clément Bompart · Written by Clément Bompart

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Faced with the insistence of his brother Joseph, whom he has not seen for 25 years, Paolo resolves to give up his calm and harmonious life in Canada, to return to Marseilles at the bedside of his rugged father. He left, therefore, with his son under his arm, determined not to linger in that city which he had fled years before, after a tragedy. He does not imagine that the affection of his newfound family, his love affair with a young woman and the joyful and simple solidarity of the Marseillais will reconcile him with this city he would never have wanted to leave...Marseillle.

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