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So Long, Stooge
So Long, Stooge film poster
Directed byClaude Berri
Written byAlain Page (novel)
Claude Berri
Produced byPierre Grunstein
StarringColuche
Philippe Léotard
Agnès Soral
CinematographyBruno Nuytten
Edited byHervé de Luze
Distributed byAMLF
Release date
  • 21 December 1983 (1983-12-21)
Running time
100 minutes
LanguageFrench
Box office€32.5 million

So Long, Stooge (French title: Tchao Pantin) is a 1983 film directed by Claude Berri. It is based on a novel by Alain Page.

Coluche, the lead, won the César Award for Best Actor. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[1]

Plot

Lambert, a withdrawn middle-aged man, works the night shift at a Parisian petrol station. He has no friends, no family; his only companion is his bottle of rum. One night, a young Arab man, Bensoussan, enters his shop — and his life. This stranger has also no family, lives alone in a dingy room, and scrapes together a living as a drug dealer. The two solitary men develop a friendship — but this is brutally brought to an end when Bensoussan is killed in front of Lambert. Lambert soon realises that his new friend was murdered by his drug dealing associates and sets out to avenge his death — assisted by Lola, a punk girl who knew Bensoussan briefly. By doing this, Lambert manages to come to terms with his own tragic past.

Cast

Production

Developement

In 1982, during a train trip, producer Christian Spillmaecker read several novels, including Tchao Pantin by Alain Page, recently published[2]. Spillmaecker is thrilled by the story of Lambert, a depressed former cop turned pump attendant, determined to find the murderers of a small dealer whom he identifies with his son[2]. The producer passes the book to Claude Berri at the last minute. Although not very enthusiastic, Berri sees in Lambert a role for Coluche, with which he had filmed Le Pistonné and The Schoolmaster (Berri a also produced a few films with Coluche) and bought the rights to the novel[2]. He passes the subject to the actor who at first refuses such a black role[2].

See also

References

  1. ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  2. ^ a b c d Olivier Petit, "Tchao Pantin”: a cult film born in pain, Télé Star, N ° 2032, 7 September 2015, p. 63 (read online) .
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