Credits

• Written and directed by Gérard Krawczyk
  Gérard Krawczyk
  Gérard Krawczyk is a French film director. He is of Polish descent .-Filmography as director:* Homocide by Night * Je hais les acteurs Gérard Krawczyk (17 May 1953) is a French film director. He is of Polish descent (his grandparents were from Częstochowa).-Filmography as director:* Homocide by...
  
  
• Based on the novel by Didier Daeninckx
  Didier Daeninckx
  Didier Daeninckx is a French author and left-wing politician, best known for his romans noirs. He frequently uses fictional settings to transport social critique; his writings are characterized by a sobering social realism...
  
  
• French

Cast

• Virginie Ledoyen
  Virginie Ledoyen
  Virginie Fernandez , known by her stage name Virginie Ledoyen, is a French actress.-Life and career:She was born in Aubervilliers, Paris, the daughter of Olga, a restaurateur, and Bernard Fernandez, a merchant who sold cleaning products. Her paternal grandfather was Spanish...
  
   as Johanna
• Maïdi Roth as Jeanne
• Marc Duret as Luc
• Saïd Taghmaoui
  Saïd Taghmaoui
  Saïd Taghmaoui is a French actor and screenwriter. One of his defining screen roles was that of Saïd in the award winning 1995 French film La Haine directed by Mathieu Kassovitz...
  
   as JP
• Dominic Gould
  Dominic Gould
  Dominic Gould is a French actor born 19 September 1964 in Los Angeles, USA.-Films and TV:*Marie-Antoinette - Count*Le Grand Charles - Roosevelt's interpreter*L'Antidote - Andrew...
  
   as Jasper
• Marie Laforêt
  Marie Laforêt
  Marie Laforêt is a French singer and actress, .In 1978 she moved to Geneva, Switzerland and took out Swiss nationality.-The sources of her birth name:...
  
   as Sylvie
• Charlotte de Turckheim
  Charlotte de Turckheim
  Anne-Charlotte de Turckheim is a French actress, screenwriter, comedian and film producer. Born in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, France, the daughter of Françoise Husson and Arnaud de Turckheim, a member of a noble Protestant family from Alsace, Charlotte de Turckheim studied theater...
  
   as Catherine
• Edouard Baer
  Édouard Baer
  Édouard Baer is a French actor.- Filmography :*Un monde à nous *Seuls two *Passe-passe *Crosse *La fille coupée en deux...
  
   as Francis
• Serge Reggiani
  Serge Reggiani
  Serge Reggiani was an Italian-born French singer and actor. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight...
  
   as Montgolfier
• Dominique Besnehard
  Dominique Besnehard
  Dominique Besnehard is a French actor. He has appeared in over 80 films and television shows since 1975. He starred in the 1983 film À nos amours, which was entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival....
  
   as Eddy
• Marie-Laure Denoyel as Mme Bayol
• Dominique Lagier as Mme Campergue
• François Fehner as Michel
• Neige Dolsky as Mme Laubier
• Gérard Pollet as Philippe

Story

Two best friends, Johanna and Jeanne, live in the small town of Decazeville

Decazeville

Decazeville is a commune in the Aveyron department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France.The commune was created in the 19th century because of the Industrial Revolution and was named after the Duke of Decazes , the founder of the factory that created the town.-History:The town is built...

, a mining town in France. One year at the Miners' Ball, the music group The Sirens perform, of which Johanna and Jeanne are members.

In a spontaneous moment, a new friend of Johanna's (named Luc) discovers Johanna and Jeanne's incredible musical talent and singing ability when they sing a duet together without musical accompaniment.

The two girls begin practicing and recording in a studio together with the help of Luc and an arranger, Jasper, and finally manage to record a tape with a few songs.

A co-worker of Jeanne's joins their team as Jasper's assistant. Just after Luc leaves for Paris to take the tape around to various record companies, the others spot posters for a music contest, but only single artists may enter, and Johanna is chosen by the group to enter.

She appears on live TV and is an instant hit, but with only one problem: as she begins to perform before the cameras, Jasper cuts out her mike and inserts a recording of Jeanne's voice instead.

Everyone except for this small group of insiders believes it's really Johanna singing, and their lives snowball from there.