Les Fanatiques
| Les Fanatiques | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Alex Joffé |
| Written by |
Alex Joffé Jean Lévitte |
| Starring |
Pierre Fresnay Michel Auclair |
| Music by | Paul Misraki |
| Cinematography | Léonce-Henri Burel |
| Edited by | Raymond Lamy |
| Distributed by | Pathé Consortium Cinéma |
Release dates | 8 November 1957 (France) |
Running time | 90 min |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Les Fanatiques is a French film directed by Alex Joffé and released in 1957.[1]
Plot
A revolution has just happened in a South American country while its dictator is away on a trip. He decides to return to subdue the revolutionaries. On the flight to Rome, he meets Luis Vargas, the leading opponent to his dictatorial regime. But General Ribéra learns that Luis has taken this flight to kill him, having boarded with a bomb hidden in a typewriter. Ribéra dies from a heart attack, leaving Luis to do everything he can to save the passengers.
Cast
- Pierre Fresnay as Luis Vargas, fanatical revolutionary
- Michel Auclair as Diego Dias, airport manager, friend of Luis
- Françoise Fabian as Mlle Lambert, air hostess
- Grégoire Aslan as General Antonio Ribéra, dictator
- Thilda Thalmar as Juana Ribéra, the general's wife
- Betty Schneider as Lili, young passenger on flight to Rome
- Pierre Tabard as Sevelli
- José Lowgoy as Ramirez
- Edward Fleming as a passenger
- René Hell as Coti, airport baggage handler
- Grégory Chmara as the passenger who asked a question
- Pascal Alexandre as François, the little boy
- Olivier Darrieux / Jean Olivier as the man who asks Diego to take the passengers
- René Alone
- Luce Aubertin
- Georges Debret
- François Marié
- Jean Chapot
- Geneviève Antonelli
- Pierre Cosson
- Bernard Privat
- Armand Tabuteau
- André Bonnarel
- Véronique Deschamps
- Daniel Crohem
- Lucien Camiret
- Humberto Beltrán-del-Río as Passenger in boarding room, sitting next to briefcase
References
- ↑ "A Bomb for a Dictator". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2014-03-28.