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The Big Brother (1982)

1h 55m · 8 Sep 1982
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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.

Movie ID27695
GenreCrime
DirectorFrancis Girod
Main castGérard Depardieu, Souad Amidou, Hakim Ghanem, Jean Rochefort, Roger Planchon, Jacques Villeret, Christine Fersen, Smaïn
Release date8 September 1982
Release year1982
LanguageFrench
Duration115 min (1h 55m)
Rating6.1 / 10 (TMDB)
Production house–

Director: Francis Girod
Writers: Francis Girod, Michel Grisolia

Top cast

Gérard DepardieuGérard Berger / Bernard Vigo Souad AmidouZina Khelifa
Hakim GhanemAli
Jean RochefortCharles-Henri Rossi Roger PlanchonInspecteur Valin Jacques VilleretInspecteur Coleau Christine FersenJane la voisine SmaïnAbdel François ClavierCastel Philippe BrizardLe conseiller
Tania SoursevaMadame Huysmans
Jean-Michel RibesClient de Zina Corinne DaclaLa femme de Gérard

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