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This record-breaking comedy smashed the box office in France, where it was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Cesar Awards.

Although living a comfortable life in a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, her husband Philippe tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town on the French Riviera, at any cost.

When Philippe is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector he is immediately banished to Bergues, a distant town in the Far North of France. Leaving his child and wife behind, Philippe leaves for Bergues, a dreadfully cold place inhabited by hard-drinking, unemployed rednecks speaking an incomprehensible dialect called Ch'ti. But Philippe soon realizes that all these ideas were nothing but prejudices and that Bergues is not synonymous with hell...

Audience Award winner at the Hamburg Film Festival. Nominated for Best European Film at the Goya Awards and the Gaudi Awards.