Synopsis
A disparate, small group of smugglers try to expand their income by carrying illegal cargo across the French-Swiss border in this routine tale of life on the shady side. Paul (Hugues Quester) works as a mechanic in his father's car repair shop, but he makes extra cash by smuggling goods and people across the border. He dreams of getting his pilot's license and going to Canada to work. Mali (Berry Berr) works in a factory and smuggles narcotics across the border for extra lucre. Finally, Jean (Jean-Philippe Ecoffey) works on his father's farm and is not at all interested in smuggling until he meets Mali. After he agrees to help Paul smuggle some gold into Switzerland, he has no idea that Paul realizes the police are hot on his trail. The results are disastrous.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (12)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : mk2 films
- Co-productions : Films A2, RTS 2 - Télévision Suisse Romande 2
- Foreign production companies : Filmograph SA, Channel Four Television, ARD / WDR - Westdeutscher Rundfunk
- Film exports/foreign sales : mk2 films
- French distribution : mk2 films
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producers : Alain Tanner, Marin Karmitz
- Screenwriter : Alain Tanner
- Director of Photography : Bernard Zitzermann
- Music Composer : Terry Riley
- Editor : Laurent Uhler
- Sound recordists : Philippe Sénéchal, Jean-Paul Mugel
- Line Producer : Jean-Louis Porchet
- Production Manager : Gérard Ruey
- Assistant editor : Maya Schmid
- Sound Mixer : Dominique Hennequin
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Exile
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Switzerland, Great Britain, Germany, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Switzerland, Great Britain, Germany, France)
- Production year : 1985
- French release : 28/08/1985
- Runtime : 1 h 50 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 59.022
- Visa issue date : 27/02/1985
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
Box-office & releases
TV broadcasting
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