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Story
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After the death of his parents, Pierre is forced to care for his younger sister Nathalie by committing petty crimes. In a recurring motif of Gérard Blain’s cinema, Pierre is taken under the wing of an older gay man, Hubert , who offers him work and financial security; but when Hubert makes advances to him, Pierre robs him and takes up with a group of radical leftists who are planning terrorist attacks. Without employment, Pierre loses Nathalie to child services and spirals into desperation, finally erupting in an act of horrific violence. An x-ray showing the largely undiagnosed sickness of its time, and a stern warning to ours.
- Director
- Gérard Blain
- Writers
- Gérard Blain, André Debaecque
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Release date
- 12 November 1980
Ensemble
Cast
Patrick Norbert
Pierre
Michel Subor
Beaufils
Isabelle Rosais
Nathalie
Jean-Jacques Aublanc
Alain
Françoise Michaud
Corinne
Alain Jérôme
Jean-Claude
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