L'Étoile du Nord (film)

L'Étoile du Nord

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Directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre
Produced by Alain Sarde
Written by Pierre Granier-Deferre
Jean Aurenche
Michel Grisolia
Based on A novel 
by Georges Simenon
Starring Philippe Noiret
Simone Signoret
Fanny Cottençon
Music by Philippe Sarde
Cinematography Pierre-Wiliam Glenn
Edited by Jean Ravel
Production
company
Sara Films
Films A2
Distributed by Parafrance Films
Release dates
  • 31 March 1982
Running time
 124 minutes
Country France
Language French

L'Étoile du Nord (English: The North Star) is a 1982 French film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre and based on a novel by Georges Simenon, starring Simone Signoret, Philippe Noiret, Fanny Cottençon and Julie Jézéquel. It won a César Award for Best Adaptation and Best Supporting Actress, and was nominated for Best Actress, Most Promising Actress and Best Editing.

Plot

On a ship in the 1930s sailing from Alexandria to Marseille, Édouard Binet, a French adventurer, meets Nemrod Loktum, a shady Egyptian businessman, and Sylvie Baron, a Belgian exotic dancer. Nemrod takes the Étoile du Nord train to Brussels, on which he is robbed and killed. Édouard then takes a room at the boarding house in Charleroi of Madame Baron, Sylvie’s mother, with bloodstained clothes and a lot of money that he hides. Despite the suspicions of her younger daughter Antoinette and the other lodgers, the frosty Madame Baron is gradually charmed by the suave Frenchman and believes his stories. The police learn of his presence and, after trial, he is sent to the infamous Île de Ré for transportation to the penal colonies. Madame Baron is among the grieving relatives who wave goodbye.

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