The story
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.
Cast & crew
Gérard DepardieuGérard Berger / Bernard Vigo
Souad AmidouZina Khelifa
Jean RochefortCharles-Henri Rossi
Roger PlanchonInspecteur Valin
Jacques VilleretInspecteur Coleau
Christine FersenJane la voisine
SmaïnAbdel
François ClavierCastel
Philippe BrizardLe conseiller
Jean-Michel RibesClient de ZinaExplore the crew
- Director
- Francis Girod
- Writer
- Michel Grisolia
- Writer
- Francis Girod
- Director of Photography
- Bernard Zitzermann
- Producer
- Ariel Zeitoun
- Editor
- Henri Colpi
- Original Music Composer
- Pierre Jansen