Les Fanatiques

Les Fanatiques is a French film directed by Alex Joffé and released in 1957.[1]

Les Fanatiques
Directed byAlex Joffé
Written byAlex Joffé
Jean Lévitte
StarringPierre Fresnay
Michel Auclair
Music byPaul Misraki
CinematographyLéonce-Henri Burel
Edited byRaymond Lamy
Distributed byPathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date
8 November 1957 (France)
Running time
90 min
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

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.[2]

Cast

Source: IMDb[2]

  • 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
gollark: And my parents mostly let me get away with that, thus μhahahaha.
gollark: Yes, I should be able to mismanage time UTTERLY if I wish to.
gollark: I work most efficiently when there's a deadline the day after and/or it's ridiculously late.
gollark: Imagine NOT losing some amount of sleep over ridiculous procrastination?
gollark: I wonder if he has any relation to the moore's law moore.

References

  1. "A Bomb for a Dictator". unifrance.org. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  2. IMDb: A Bomb for a Dictator


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