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The Strategy of Failure

The Strategy of Failure

2001•58m•6.4/10
Comedy

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6.4/10(29)

My various experiences in the field of failure have allowed me to highlight specific areas in which it is crucial to get disorganized and to recognize the steps to be taken to end in ineffective management. This sentence is totally incomprehensible. It's normal. The longer the sentences, the less we understand them. It is the strategy of failure. To help us understand the failure and illustrate this video, we will need two men who we will call Luc for further misunderstanding. We will also need a woman whom we will call Sylvie for hygiene reasons.

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Production

StudioCanal

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Dominique Farrugia

Dominique Farrugia

Le Présentateur

Kad Merad

Kad Merad

M. Golden

Maurice Barthélemy

Maurice Barthélemy

Luc

Jean-Paul Rouve

Jean-Paul Rouve

Luc

Michel Field

Michel Field

Lui-même

Judith El Zein

Judith El Zein

Sylvie

Virginie Caliari

Virginie Caliari

Ludivine

Pascale Ruben

Collègue de bureau

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