Counterfeiter thriller ‘The Money Maker’ racks up global deals for The Bureau Sales

EXCLUSIVE: French director Jean-Paul Salomé’s period thriller The Money Maker, about the real-life counterfeiter nicknamed “the Cézanne of fake money”, has sold widely for The Bureau Sales.

Deals include Australia and New Zealand (Limelight), Italy (Movies Inspired), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Canada (TVA), Poland (Monolith), Spain (Adso), Greece (Rosebud), Israel (Lev), ex-Yugoslavia (Discovery), CIS (Provzyglad), the Baltics (Best Film) and airlines (Skeye).

Set in post-Second World War France, the film stars Reda Kateb as Jan Bojarski, a Polish refugee in France who forged near-perfect counterfeit money from his own backyard and eluded police for nearly 15 years. Bastien Bouillon plays the police commissioner attempting to hunt down the sophisticated swindler.

The Money Maker is produced by Le Bureau’s Bertrand Faivre and Les Compagnons du Cinema’s Florence Gastaud. Co-producers are France 2 Cinema, Auverge-Rhone-Alpes Cinema, Cactus Prod and Belgium’s Artemis Productions. Le Pacte will release the film in France on January 14, 2026.

It is Arsène Lupin director Salomé’s follow-up to 2022’s The Sitting Duck (La Syndicaliste), which starred Isabelle Huppert and premiered in Venice’s Horizons section.

The Bureau’s head of sales Clementine Hugot said: “Since the international success of Mama Weed, we’ve proudly produced Jean-Paul Salomé’s last two films, including The Money Maker. His entertaining and deeply human stories have proven to be strong international sellers, as will his next project which we are currently developing.”

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