La mort d'Auguste (2015)
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Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Antoine Duléry, Bruno Solo, Olivia Brunaux
After a Paris restaurateur dies during service, his three sons search for an inheritance that may not exist.
The story
Paris, 1965: Auguste, elderly owner of the renowned Les Halles restaurant Chez l'Auvergnat, collapses during service and dies. His sons Antoine, Ferdinand, and Bernard immediately begin searching for the inheritance they cannot find, unsure whether their father left a will or hid his savings. Antoine, also his father's business partner, becomes a focus of his brothers' suspicions. The brothers' wives also enter the dispute, determined to have a say in the potentially valuable inheritance. The family is left trying to resolve a mystery surrounding Auguste's money and intentions.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Paris, 1965. Auguste, the elderly owner of Chez l'Auvergnat, a renowned restaurant in Les Halles, collapses in the middle of service. His death has barely been announced when his three sons, Antoine, Ferdinand, and Bernard, set out to find an inheritance that is nowhere to be found. Where could their father have hidden his savings? Did he even leave a will? The mystery is complete, much to the embarrassment of Antoine, who was also his father's business partner and consequently arouses the suspicions of his two brothers. And that is without even counting the intervention of the sisters-in-law, who are determined not to be left out of this more-than-interesting inheritance affair...
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