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Irreplaceable

Bristles with humor, mostly drawn from life, and illuminating moments of irony… with characters this finely chiseled and superbly played by the cast

Hollywood Reporter
  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Thomas Lilti
  • France 2016
  • 102 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English


Dr. Jean-Pierre Werner is an experienced and devoted country doctor. When Jean-Pierre is diagnosed with a disease, he is forced to train a replacement, a young female doctor, although he considers himself irreplaceable…
French box-office star Francois Cluzet (Intouchables) headlines this medical drama from doctor-turned-director Thomas Lilti. A surprise box office hit in France, the film “bristles with humor, mostly drawn from life, and illuminating moments of irony… with characters this finely chiseled and superbly played by the cast” – Hollywood Reporter.
Filmography: Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor (2014), Les yeux bandés (2007).


  • Director Thomas Lilti
  • Production Agnès Vallée, Emmanuel Barraux
  • Script Thomas Lilti, Baya Kasmi
  • Cinematography Nicolas Gaurin
  • Editing Christel Dewynter
  • Music Alexandre Lier, Sylvain Ohrel, Nicolas Weil
  • Festivals Edinburgh
  • Actors François Cluzet, Marianne Denicourt
  • Source New Cinema, Tal Aviv

Irreplaceable