The Big Brother

The Big Brother (1982)


  • Genre: Crime
  • Release Date: 1982-09-08
  • User Rating: 5.8/10 from 10 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 55min
  • Language: Français
  • Production Country: France
  • Director: Francis Girod
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Summary

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.

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  • 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
Directing Francis Girod Director
Writing Michel Grisolia Writer
Art Jacques Bufnoir Production Design
Editing Henri Colpi Editor
Sound Michèle Catonné Sound Editor
Sound Claude Villand Sound Mixer
Writing Francis Girod Writer
Production Ariel Zeitoun Producer
Sound Joël Beldent Sound Mixer
Sound Pierre Jansen Original Music Composer
Camera Bernard Zitzermann Director of Photography
Sound Guillaume Sciama Sound
Writing Sam Ross Novel

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