First Trailer Lands for Stéphane Brizé's 'A Good Little Soldier' Ahead of Venice Premiere
The first trailer for Stéphane Brizé's "A Good Little Soldier" arrived on 7 September, unveiled exclusively by Deadline. The film world-premieres at the 2026 Venice Film Festival, where it screens in the Venezia 83 Competition on 9 September at 20:00 inside the PalaBiennale, with a running time of 102 minutes. From the Lido it travels directly to Toronto: a North American debut in TIFF's Special Presentations section on 10 September at 15:00, kicking off the 51st edition of that festival, which runs 10–20 September.
Alba Rohrwacher leads the cast as Carla, a 43-year-old high-performing executive whose devotion to her career has long come at the expense of her family life. She is recruited to rebrand a company's image and finds herself pushed to her moral limits. Vincent Lindon plays the pushy CEO of the corporation — his sixth collaboration with Brizé, a partnership that previously yielded the Cannes best-actor prize for Lindon in "The Measure of a Man" (Deadline). The cast also includes David Talbot, Adrien Bobinet, and Sharif Andoura (La Biennale di Venezia). Brizé co-wrote the screenplay with Coralie Amédéo and Olivier Gorce; it is his 11th fiction feature.
Behind the camera, the structure is squarely French studio filmmaking. "A Good Little Soldier" (original title: "Un bon petit soldat") is a Gaumont production, lead produced by Sidonie Dumas, in coproduction with France 3 Cinéma and with the support of Canal+. Gaumont is handling international sales and, per Deadline, announced a flurry of territory deals in the lead-up to Venice — the kind of pre-festival business that signals buyer confidence before a single public screening. French audiences will get their chance when Gaumont releases the film in domestic cinemas on 25 November.
The Venice-to-Toronto back-to-back is a well-worn path for prestige European titles angling for autumn awards attention. For Brizé, it places his latest work squarely in the conversation alongside the festival season's most visible titles. Rohrwacher and Lindon are familiar faces on that circuit — both are festival regulars whose presence on a call sheet tells buyers and programmers exactly what register to expect.
For now, the trailer is the public's first look. The full film follows in two of the autumn's most closely watched festival slots.
