Le Bâtard
A Feature film of
Produced by
Production year1983
French release15/06/1983
Runtime
1h 50m
Synopsis
Based on Erskine Caldwell's novel, Le Batard stars Gérard Klein as Patrice, a Parisian automobile mechanic who travels to Marseille to identify the body of his loose-living and long-lost mother, who has been found murdered. After proceeding to kill off her barroom boss, he meanders around the south of France looking for sexual relationships. He comes across a teenage musician and is attracted enough to her obvious appeal to establish a more permanent liaison, taking her with him to Paris to set up housekeeping -- for she is pregnant. Soon she is driven to the limits of depression and boredom caring for their home and a new baby, and he has reached his limits of confinement and responsibility -- so he takes off again.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (23)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Mallia Films
- Co-production : France 3 Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : Mallia Films
- French distribution : Cyrile Distribution
Full credits (19)
- Executive Producer : Bertrand Van Effenterre
- Screenwriters : Bertrand Van Effenterre, Pierre-Alain Maubert
- Director of Photography : François Catonné
- Music Composer : Norbert Aboudarham
- Assistant directors : Claire Denis, Alain Peyrollaz
- Editor : Joële Van Effenterre
- Sound Recordist : Pierre Gamet
- Costume designer : Élisabeth Tavernier
- Author of original work : Erskine Caldwell
- Sound Assistant : Bernard Chaumeil
- Assistant Operators : Anne Khripounoff, Catherine Strem
- Assistant editor : Isabelle Dedieu
- Continuity supervisor : Marie Arnaud
- Production Designer : Geoffroy Larcher
- Art Director : Frédéric Duru
- Stunt performer : Daniel Vérité
- Casting : Dominique Besnehard, Claire Denis
- Sound Mixer : Dominique Hennequin
- Location manager : Séverine Olivier-Lacamp
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1983
- French release : 15/06/1983
- Runtime : 1 h 50 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 55768
- Visa issue date : 25/01/1983
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Audio format : Mono
