François Ruffin is a French journalist, essayist, documentary filmmaker and politician. After creating in 1999 the newspaper Fakir in Amiens, his hometown, he published in 2003 Les petits soldats du journalisme, a critical analysis of his training in the largest French school of journalism. He then took part in a radio reporting program on France Inter, directed _Merci Patron! _in 2016, which won the César award for Best Documentary Film, and co-directed J'veux du soleil in 2019 and _Debout les femmes! _in 2021 with Gilles Perret. François Ruffin is also a deputy of the left-wing political party France Insoumise since 2017.
François Ruffin is determined to re-establish a dialogue between the richest man in the world, Bernard Arnault, head of the luxury group LVMH, and the workers he has dismissed over the years. In northern France, Ruffin meets Serge and Jocelyne Klur, former employees of a Kenzo suit factory, relocated to Poland under Arnault's orders. Seeing that the Klurs live in extreme poverty and that their ...
François Ruffin is determined to re-establish a dialogue between the richest man in the world, Bernard Arnault, head of the luxury group LVMH, and the workers he has dismissed over the years. In northern France, Ruffin meets Serge and Jocelyne Klur, former employees of a Kenzo suit factory, relocated to Poland under Arnault's orders. Seeing that the Klurs live in extreme poverty and that their ...