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The Big Brother (1982)

★ 5.8/10 115 min Crime France French
Director: Francis Girod
Streaming: Not available

Description

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.

Top Cast

Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu Gérard Berger / Bernard Vigo
Souad Amidou
Souad Amidou Zina Khelifa
Hakim Ghanem Ali
Jean Rochefort
Jean Rochefort Charles-Henri Rossi
Roger Planchon
Roger Planchon Inspecteur Valin
Jacques Villeret
Jacques Villeret Inspecteur Coleau
Christine Fersen
Christine Fersen Jane la voisine
Smaïn
Smaïn Abdel

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