The Big Brother (1982)
The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure -- the not-so-good doctor kills his wife because she is having an affair, and he kills her lover too. Then he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to the former French colonies in Africa, the plane he is in crashes, and Rossi, a "friend" on the plane with some overweight in carry-on money, shoots Bernard and takes off, leaving him for dead. He is nursed back to life and health by friendly villagers and just his luck, he not only manages to make his fortune in Africa, he also nabs a French passport from a dying man who will clearly not need it anymore unless the Pearly Gates have a French guard.
Director: Francis Girod
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Gérard Depardieu as Gérard Berger / Bernard Vigo |
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Souad Amidou as Zina Khelifa |
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Hakim Ghanem as Ali |
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Jean Rochefort as Charles-Henri Rossi |
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Roger Planchon as Inspecteur Valin |
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Jacques Villeret as Inspecteur Coleau |
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Christine Fersen as Jane la voisine |
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Smaïn as Abdel |
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François Clavier as Castel |
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Philippe Brizard as Le conseiller |
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Tania Sourseva as Madame Huysmans |
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Jean-Michel Ribes as Client de Zina |
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Corinne Dacla as La femme de Gérard |
| Directing | Francis Girod | Director |
| Writing | Sam Ross | Novel |
| Writing | Michel Grisolia | Writer |
| Art | Jacques Bufnoir | Production Design |
| Sound | Guillaume Sciama | Sound |
| Sound | Michèle Catonné | Sound Editor |
| Writing | Francis Girod | Writer |
| Camera | Bernard Zitzermann | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Claude Villand | Sound Mixer |
| Production | Ariel Zeitoun | Producer |
| Editing | Henri Colpi | Editor |
| Sound | Pierre Jansen | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Joël Beldent | Sound Mixer |