Directed by:
Bertrand BlierScreenplay:
Bertrand BlierCinematography:
Jean PenzerComposer:
Philippe SardeCast:
Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Carole Bouquet, Michel Serrault, Geneviève Page, Denise Gence, Jean Benguigui, Marco Perrin, Liliane Rovère (more)VOD (1)
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Anarchic and hilarious thriller stars Gerard Depardieu as an unemployed death-obsessed drifter drawn into an absurd murder plot featuring a shady characters like his wife's killer, a corrupt police chief and a young beauty who's afraid of the dark and who is definitely not what she seems. And above all a missing knife that turns up in a subway rider's belly. Bleak and ironic black comedy about solitude and dishumanization of the modern world directed by Bertrand Blier reminds the surrealistic dreamscapes of Luis Bunuel's final films and in 1980 it won César Award for Best Screenplay. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Gérard Depardieu
France
Best movies:
Jean de Florette (1986)
Two Men in Town (1973)
Shut Up! (2003)
Bernard Blier
Argentina
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
Les Misérables (1958)
Marie-October (1959)
Jean Carmet
France
Best movies:
My Mother's Castle (1990)
Les Misérables (1982)
The Fighting Musketeers (1961)
Carole Bouquet
France
Best movies:
Le Rouge et le noir (1997) (TV movie)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Spécial police (1985)
Michel Serrault
France
Best movies:
Order of the Daisy (1967)
The Big Store (1973)
The Inquisitor (1981)
Geneviève Page
France
Best movies:
Grand Prix (1966)
Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952)
El Cid (1961)
Denise Gence
France
Best movies:
Lovers of Paris (1957)
Buffet Froid (1979)
That's Show Business (1975)
Jean Benguigui
Algeria
Best movies:
The Fugitives (1986)
Fatal (2010)
My New Partner at the Races (1990)
Marco Perrin
France
Best movies:
The Two of Us (1967)
Flic Story (1975)
Army of Shadows (1969)
Liliane Rovère
France
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
'Round Midnight (1986)
Buffet Froid (1979)
Roger Riffard
France
Best movies:
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
Lacombe Lucien (1974)
Incorrigible (1975)
Michel Fortin
France
Best movies:
Two Men in Town (1973)
Holy Year (1976)
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
Pierre Frag
France
Best movies:
My New Partner (1984)
Les Grandes Gueules (1965)
The Rise of Louis XIV (1966) (TV movie)
Jean Rougerie
France
Best movies:
My Father's Glory (1990)
Monsieur Vincent (1947)
Lacombe Lucien (1974)
Eric Vasberg
Best movies:
Fantomas Strikes Back (1965)
La Louve solitaire (1968)
Mauvais sang (1986)
Maurice Travail
France
Best movies:
Holy Year (1976)
The Big Store (1973)
Incorrigible (1975)
Nicole Desailly
France
Best movies:
Two Men in Town (1973)
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
No Time for Breakfast (1976)
Bernard Crombey
Best movies:
Conversation with My Gardener (2007)
Lune froide (1991)
Buffet Froid (1979)