France 2 broadcasts Wednesday March 26, at 9:10 p.m., the unpublished TV movie “Le Combat d’Alice”. A fiction committed, inspired by the novel “8865” by Dominique Legrand.
Alice’s fight is a new unprecedented TV movie proposed by France 2 but also a new example of social subjects whose public channel wants to seize, by chaining the fictions of the genre for a few years. This time, it is a question of following the militant course of a 16 -year -old teenager, Alice, deeply affected by the death of her mother two years earlier. Excluded from the school, the girl is sent by her father Joscelin to the countryside, to her grandparents. It is there that she will take tenderness for a calf, before realizing with horror that the slaughterhouse awaits the young animal.
Revolted, Alice is ready to do anything to save the beast. She then approaches a group of activists and engages body and soul in this fight, with all the passion and the excesses of her age. Far from imagining that this fierce fight against animal suffering could become the ground of saving reconciliation with his father and the beginning of resilience for them.
Alice’s fight, Adaptation of a favorite novel
Directed by Thierry Binisti and produced by A Prime Group and the French Fiction Department of France Télévisions, Alice’s fight is the adaptation of the novel “8865” by Dominique Legrand, published by Hugo Publishing editions in 2020. A favorite book which, without sinking into the cliché and while keeping a certain balance, leads each to reflect, by the novel, the fate of animals which have entered a real hell on earth since the 20th century, with the industrialization of agriculture and slaughter practices. The food industry mowing on 70 billion terrestrial animals and more than 1000 billion marine animals each year.
The scenario of this very subtle adaptation is signed Mikaël Ollivier. The cast brings together Nicolas Gob in the role of the father, Joscelin, Lucy Loste Berset in that of Alice, but also Carole Bianic, Luce Mouchel or Pasquale d’ena. And as the producer Pierre Sportolaro indicates, the objective of the film is first to dive “in the heart of the peasant universe” and in “the story of a father and his daughter, linked by love and torments”. A film “balanced, engaged against animal mistreatment certainly, but not at all, a story that would allow to approach with nuances our relationship to life and death, that of animals, men, women and more particularly of a mother”.
Shot in 2025, Alice’s fight resonates particularly with our current era, marked by deep disturbances. “At the time of the film’s release, the world is shaken, in shock from new political, military and economic energies, ferocious and brutal forces, the world in which we will have to live, each shaping their place …”, underlines Pierre Sportolaro in his note of intent.