Solène Delinger 2:20 p.m., September 30, 2022

On the occasion of the release, on October 5, of "November", a film in which Jean Dujardin plays a policeman tracking down the terrorists of the attacks of November 13, the actor recounted his memory of the events in an interview for RTL .

The star also defended the feature film, criticized for its temporal proximity to the subject matter. 

Jean Dujardin is back in theaters on October 5 with

Novembre

, the new event film by Cédric Jimenez.

Seven years after the attacks that targeted the Stade de France, the Bataclan and Parisian terraces, the director decided to seize the subject by narrating the hunt for terrorists by investigators from the anti-terrorist sub-directorate of the PJ.

"There were people lying on the ground, agar, in tears"

The plot therefore takes place during the five days preceding the attack on Saint-Denis, where the assassins had taken refuge.

In this feature film, Jean Dujardin plays one of the police officers alongside Sandrine Kiberlain and Anaïs Demoustier.

The subject was particularly close to his heart, as he explained at the microphone of RTL on Friday October 30: "Yes I am very moved. Because I was next door, because my wife heard the shots."

He explains that he was then in the company of Claude Lellouche and Elsa Zylberstein at the time of the tragedy.

"We returned in the early morning to an empty Paris. There were people lying on the ground, agar, in tears," he recalls.

The actor specifies that he then lived next to the Bataclan.

The next day, he went to pay tribute to the victims with his children and his wife Natalie Péchalat, by placing a candle in front of the 

"My son told me: 'We feel helpless'. I tell myself that's exactly it, we are completely helpless", he explains on RTL.

"We had the impression that we had come to the end of something and that nothing could restart as before. It's a great fragility that we still have and that we still carry around". 

Jean Dujardin denounces a "bad lawsuit" targeting the film

Jean Dujardin also defends himself against the accusations of recovery aimed at the teams of the film

Novembre.

"There are bad lawsuits that can be brought against you for a film. We don't make a business out of it, stop taking us for idiots. There are people who have worked well for that. And I can tell you that the film is about something else, rather positive in its collective. If we were sometimes a little more in this community, it would do us good, "he concludes.