So Long, Stooge

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So Long, Stooge
So Long, Stooge film poster
Directed by	Claude Berri
Produced by	Pierre Grunstein
Written by	Alain Page (novel), Claude Berri
Starring	Coluche, Philippe Léotard
Cinematography	Bruno Nuytten
Editing by	Hervé de Luze
Distributed by	European Classics Video (USA)
Release date(s)	December 21, 1983
Running time	100 min
Language	French
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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 main actor, won the "Best Actor" award in 1984 César Award.

[edit] 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Lambert, a withdrawn middle-aged man, works the night shift at a Parisian petrol station.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.