Clovis kneeling amid a battlefield under a burning sky
486 A.D.Gaul is collapsing

A historical epic by Charly & Freddy Venant

TOLBIAC

A King's Nightmare

Haunted by blood and fire, a young king must choose between the gods that shaped him and the faith that could unite a civilization.

Enter the story
01 / The story

A kingdom without a center

The old world is dying. A new one waits to be named.

Fresh from defeating the last Roman legions, Clovis seizes Northern Gaul. Victory gives him territory—but no legitimacy.

Rejected by the Gallo-Roman elite, feared by the people, and torn between pagan warriors and a spiritual power he refuses to understand, the young king stands at the edge of chaos.

When the Alemanni invade, Clovis must rally a fractured land and confront the nightmare that has followed him to the battlefield.

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Battle of Tolbiac

In the mud, under a rain of blood, destiny stops being a burden and becomes a choice.

Tolbiac concept poster showing Clovis kneeling in prayer
02 / The crossroads
“What world do we choose to build when the old one collapses?”

TOLBIAC is a character-driven epic about leadership under uncertainty—the birth of a civilization seen through the inner transformation of one man.

Intimacy / Epic scaleSilence / BattleFragility / Legend
03 / Themes

The battle beneath the battle

A film about the instant when brutality gives way to purpose.

01

End of a world

The fall of Rome opens a chasm where everything can collapse.

02

Birth of a vocation

Clovis discovers that conquest is not the same as purpose.

03

The inner war

The fiercest battle is fought inside the king's heart.

04

Unity of a people

A fractured land searches for a center strong enough to hold.

05

Spiritual transmission

A warrior awakens to the sacred dimension of his role.

04 / Intent

A light so powerful it first blinds us.

We are drawn to stories that reveal the moment a world changes—not through armies or empires, but through the inner shift of a single human being.

The fifth century is not filmed as a distant past, but as a mirror: uncertain, fractured, unstable, and searching for meaning. History becomes intimate. Legend becomes human.

— Charly & Freddy Venant

Available for discussion and development

Help bring the birth of a civilization to the screen.

Screenwriter & creatorFreddy Venantfrederic-venant@wanadoo.fr
Co-screenwriter & co-creatorCharly Venantcharly.venant@gmail.com