Foreign trailer for The Minister.
From the opening scene--a dream sequence involving a formal ceremony, a very nude woman and a very large crocodile--Pierre Schöller’s cutting and trenchant political drama demonstrates that it is definitely cut from a different cloth. The great Olivier Gourmet delivers a superbly controlled performance as a French departmental minister, equal parts idealist and vain opportunist, who finds that the moral compromises involved in the job have begun to destroy his own moral compass...