150 Milligrams

“La Fille de Brest”, filmed around Brest between November 2015 and January 2016 (Brest, CHU La Cavale Blanche, Lampaul Plouarzel, etc.) by Emmanuelle Bercot, an adaptation of Irene Frachon’s book “Médiator 150g: how many deaths?” tells the story of a pulmonologist’s fight at his Brest hospital, when he discovers a direct link between the drug, Médiator, which had been on the market for 30 years, and numerous suspicious deaths. From his intitial marginalisation to the mediatic explosion, the story inspired by Irene Franchone’s life is a battle between David and Goliath. In the end truth prevails.

The film is co-produced by Paris Brest Productions and was jointly supported by the Breizh Film Fund and the Brittany Region.

Synopsis

In the Brest hospital where she works, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between some patients’ suspicious deaths and medicine that has been on the market for 30 years, Mediator. From the isolation at the beginning of her study to the explosion of media coverage of the affair, the story inspired by the life of Irène Frachon is a battle of David against Goliath in order to see truth triumph at last.