Chocolat
The true story of the first black artist.
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.
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Cast
David Benhamou
Spectator in the theatre (uncredited)
Clotilde Hesme
Marie Hecquet
Achille Potier
The child
Anne-Lise Kedvès
Client
Linnett Hernandez Valdes
Rafael's mother
Marina Pastor
Theater assistant
Michèle Clément
Spectator
Clovis Fouin
Frédo
Hocine Choutri
Ray
Phénix Brossard
Eugène (young man)
Marie-Pierre Bellefleur
Neighbor
Félix Kysyl
Street vendor
Geoffroy de La Taille
(uncredited)
Gaëtan Garcia
Omar Sy
Rafael Padilla, aka Chocolat
Cédric Appietto
Leca
Bruno Podalydès
Auguste Lumière
Lilly Rose Debos
Child
Cyprien Craipeau
Sick child
Alexia Giordano
Prostitude (uncredited)
Frédéric Pierrot
Théodore Delvaux
Mikael Buxton
Aristocrat (uncredited)
Olivier Rabourdin
Firmin Gemier
Timothé Vom Dorp
Eugène (8 years old)
Jérémy Alberti
Journalist
Agathe Anquez
(uncredited)
Olivier Gourmet
Joseph Oller
Héléna Soubeyrand
Régina Badet
Matthieu Rozé
Beardless gendarme
Andy Gillet
Transvestite
James Thierrée
George Footit
Alex Descas
Victor
Mick Holsbeke
The clown Green
Stefan Godin
Mustached gendarme
Luis Francisco Cruz
Rafael's father
Stéphane Varupenne
Lodovico
Alice de Lencquesaing
Camille
Dan Herzberg
Fergus
Luc Antoni
The father
Yvo Muller
Journalist
Christophe Fluder
Marval, the lilliputian
Eric Kailey
Guardian Mace
Thierry Nenez
Hotelkeeper
Romain Ogerau
(uncredited)
Julia Effertz
Esmeralda (voice) (uncredited)
Wilfred Benaïche
Mr Constantine
Fernando Hechavarria
Mr Delmont
Claire Morin
Journalist
Félix Bossuet
Gustave
Blandine Laignel
(uncredited)
John Arnold
The Corsica
Anthony Ursin
Child at the exit of the artists
Roman Kossowski
Player
Thibault de Montalembert
Jules Moy
Antonin Maurel
The clown Ortis
Bô Gaultier de Kermoal
Lee
Denis Podalydès
Louis Lumière
Serge Massot
Manetti
Raphaël Caduc
Eugène (14 years old)
Delphine Montaigne
Émilia
Jean-Gilles Barbier
Elderly player
Vincent Nemeth
Journalist
Michel Amsellem
Pianist
Elise Lissague
Prostitude (uncredited)
Noémie Lvovsky
Yvonne Delvaux
Jean-Pol Brissart
Professor Lannelongue
Olympe
Suzanne (6 years old)
Isabelle Mazin
Grocer
Rafaël de Ferran
(uncredited)
Xavier Beauvois
Jacques Potin
Pierre Alloggia
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