
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

Anne-Lise Kedvès
Client

Yvo Muller
Journalist

Serge Massot
Manetti

Olivier Gourmet
Joseph Oller

Alex Descas
Victor

Achille Potier
The child

Jean-Pol Brissart
Professor Lannelongue

Omar Sy
Rafael Padilla, aka Chocolat

Clotilde Hesme
Marie Hecquet

Mick Holsbeke
The clown Green

Bruno Podalydès
Auguste Lumière

Raphaël Caduc
Eugène (14 years old)

Gaëtan Garcia

Jean-Gilles Barbier
Elderly player

Marina Pastor
Theater assistant

Xavier Beauvois
Jacques Potin

Olympe
Suzanne (6 years old)

Anthony Ursin
Child at the exit of the artists

Dan Herzberg
Fergus

Claire Morin
Journalist

Agathe Anquez
(uncredited)

Phénix Brossard
Eugène (young man)

Marie-Pierre Bellefleur
Neighbor

Jérémy Alberti
Journalist

Félix Bossuet
Gustave

Mikael Buxton
Aristocrat (uncredited)

Alexia Giordano
Prostitude (uncredited)

Olivier Rabourdin
Firmin Gemier

Fernando Hechavarria
Mr Delmont

Lilly Rose Debos
Child

Cyprien Craipeau
Sick child

Rafaël de Ferran
(uncredited)

Blandine Laignel
(uncredited)

Frédéric Pierrot
Théodore Delvaux

Michel Amsellem
Pianist

Vincent Nemeth
Journalist

Thierry Nenez
Hotelkeeper

Stéphane Varupenne
Lodovico

James Thierrée
George Footit

Noémie Lvovsky
Yvonne Delvaux

John Arnold
The Corsica

Clovis Fouin
Frédo

Pierre Alloggia
Guide

Antonin Maurel
The clown Ortis

Matthieu Rozé
Beardless gendarme

Linnett Hernandez Valdes
Rafael's mother

Roman Kossowski
Player

Geoffroy de La Taille
(uncredited)

David Benhamou
Spectator in the theatre (uncredited)

Elise Lissague
Prostitude (uncredited)

Julia Effertz
Esmeralda (voice) (uncredited)

Bô Gaultier de Kermoal
Lee

Luis Francisco Cruz
Rafael's father

Félix Kysyl
Street vendor

Eric Kailey
Guardian Mace

Isabelle Mazin
Grocer

Denis Podalydès
Louis Lumière

Héléna Soubeyrand
Régina Badet

Wilfred Benaïche
Mr Constantine

Cédric Appietto
Leca

Christophe Fluder
Marval, the lilliputian

Timothé Vom Dorp
Eugène (8 years old)

Stefan Godin
Mustached gendarme

Andy Gillet
Transvestite

Michèle Clément
Spectator

Delphine Montaigne
Émilia

Romain Ogerau
(uncredited)

Alice de Lencquesaing
Camille

Thibault de Montalembert
Jules Moy

Hocine Choutri
Ray

Luc Antoni
The father