Synopsis
Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Jean becomes a postman, Marcel a boxer, Roger an actor, André a student and Philippe remains what he has always been, a young man of good social standing. Roger, who can't find any role, is introduced through his singer sister Valérie, to Frédo, a shady nightclub owner.Roger soon becomes one of Frédo's henchmen. To make matters worse, he swipes Jean's fiancée, Simone. Marcel, who loses fight after fight, ends up joining Fredo's gang as well. André, who wanted to redeem the faults of his father during the Occupation, gets killed in the Indochina war. Marcel is shot down while taking part in a robbery. In her turn, Valérie is bumped off by an accomplice of Fredo and Roger is sent to jail... Later on, as Roger is about to be released, Roger and Philippe wait for him in front of the prison. Will they be able to revive their lost friendship?
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (19)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producers : Sud Films, Jeannic Films
- French distributors : Société Marseillaise de Films, Jeannic Films
Full credits (16)
- Adaptation : Pierre Laroche
- Screenwriter : Michel Jourdan
- Dialogue Writer : Pierre Laroche
- Director of Photography : Jacques Lemare
- Music Composer : Georges Van Parys
- Assistant Director : Claude Pinoteau
- Editor : Marguerite Beaugé
- Sound Recordist : Antoine Petitjean
- Producer : Robert Jallès
- Sound Assistant : Jacques Maumont
- Camera Operator : André Dumaitre
- Production Manager : Jean Velter
- Continuity supervisor : Paule Converset
- Production Designer : Jacques Colombier
- Still Photographer : Robert Joffres
- Unit Production Manager : Roger Rogelys
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Friendship
- Production language : French
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French
- Production year : 1951
- French release : 23/01/1952
- Runtime : 1 h 29 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 11214
- Visa issue date : 05/09/1951
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono