The Big Brother
Synopsis
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. The doctor gets back to Paris and hunts down Rossi, who at this point does not much care what happens to him because he is a miserable cad, as opposed to the once happy cad who shot Bernard. The doctor kills Rossi, an act witnessed by Ali (Hakim Chanem) a precocious Arab teenager who sees this as his c...
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Director (1)
Actors (16)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Partner's Production
- Co-productions : Société Française de Production (SFP), Odessa Films, TF1 Films Production
- Film exports/foreign sales : StudioCanal Films Limited
- French distribution : Gaumont
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producer : Ariel Zeïtoun
- Screenwriters : Francis Girod, Michel Grisolia
- Director of Photography : Bernard Zitzermann
- Music Composer : Pierre Jansen
- Assistant directors : Jérôme Chalou, Régis Wargnier, Olivier Glaas
- Editor : Henri Colpi
- Sound Recordist : Guillaume Sciama
- Author of original work : Sam Ross
- Producers : Yannick Bernard, André Pergament
- Sound editor : Michèle Catonné
- Continuity supervisor : Suzanne Durrenberger
- Production Designers : Tony Egry, Jacques Bufnoir
- Sound mixers : Joël Beldent, Claude Villand
- Still Photographer : Georges Pierre
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1982
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