The Big Brother

The Big Brother (1982)

Crime

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

Casts

	Gérard Depardieu as Gérard Berger / Bernard Vigo
	Souad Amidou as Zina Khelifa
	Hakim Ghanem as Ali
	Jean Rochefort as Charles-Henri Rossi
	Roger Planchon as Inspecteur Valin
	Jacques Villeret as Inspecteur Coleau
	Christine Fersen as Jane la voisine
	Smaïn as Abdel
	François Clavier as Castel
	Philippe Brizard as Le conseiller
	Tania Sourseva as Madame Huysmans
	Jean-Michel Ribes as Client de Zina
	Corinne Dacla as La femme de Gérard

Crew