The Bait (1995 film)

L'Appât

DVD cover
Directed by Bertrand Tavernier
Written by Bertrand Tavernier
Colo Tavernier
Starring Marie Gillain
Olivier Sitruk
Bruno Putzulu
Release date(s) 8 March 1995 (1995-03-08)
Running time 115 minutes
Country France
Language French

The Bait (French: L'Appât) is a 1995 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier about two boys and a girl who commit a murder, with the girl acting as a 'bait'.

The film is based on the 1990 book of the same name by Morgan Sportès, which is in turn based on the "Valérie Subra affair", a true event that happened in 1984.[1][2][3]

Contents

Cast

Awards

The film won the Golden Bear Award at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.[4]

References

  1. ^ lumiere.org: "Bertrand Tavernier - Partie 7" (French)
  2. ^ nouvelobs.com (French)
  3. ^ blog.lemonde.fr (French)
  4. ^ "Berlinale: 1995 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. http://archiv.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1995/03_preistr_ger_1995/03_Preistraeger_1995.html. Retrieved 2011-12-29. 

External links

Films directed by Bertrand Tavernier

Heartland (1980) · Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980) · Deprisa, Deprisa (1981) · Veronika Voss (1982) · Ascendancy (1983) · La colmena (1983) · Love Streams (1984) · Die Frau und der Fremde (1985) · Wetherby (1985) · Stammheim (1986) · The Theme (1987) · Red Sorghum (1988) · Rain Man (1989) · Music Box (1990) · Larks on a String (1990) · La casa del sorriso (1991) · Grand Canyon (1992) · Woman Sesame Oil Maker (1993) · The Wedding Banquet (1993) · In the Name of the Father (1994) · L'Appât (1995) · Sense and Sensibility (1996) · The People vs. Larry Flynt (1997) · Central Station (1998) · The Thin Red Line (1999)

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