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Writers:
Robert Bresson (writer)
Leo Tolstoy (short story "Faux billet")
Release Date:
18 May 1983 (France) more
Plot:
A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations more
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The silent fall of a man more (25 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Christian Patey | ... | Yvon Targe | |
| Vincent Risterucci | ... | Lucien | |
| Caroline Lang | ... | Elise | |
| Sylvie Van den Elsen | ... | Grey Haired Woman | |
| Michel Briguet | ... | Grey Haired Woman's Father | |
| Béatrice Tabourin | ... | La photographe | |
| Didier Baussy | ... | Le photographe | |
| Marc Ernest Fourneau | ... | Norbert | |
| Bruno Lapeyre | ... | Martial | |
| François-Marie Banier | |||
| Alain Aptekman | |||
| Jeanne Aptekman | ... | Yvette | |
| Dominique Mullier | |||
| Jacques Behr | |||
| Gilles Durieux |
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Runtime:
85 min | Argentina:87 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Australia:M | Iceland:14 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | Argentina:13
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Referenced in De weg naar Bresson (1984) more
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This movie is pretty strange. Although it is not a silent movie, the speeches don't last more than 10 minutes in a 90 minutes time. The story is about a truck driver, Yvon, that goes to jail because of a forged 500 franc note that he doens't know is forged. When the police catch him with the false note, he tries to convince them that he is innocent. But the man that gave him the note - and he knew that he was giving a forged note, denies that he the note to Yvon. In jail, Yvon starts seeing his live from a different angle and is tempted to escape. After been released from jail, abandoned by his wife, his life turns to murder and crime.
This would be a common movie about the fall of a man but it was directed by Robert Bresson, a director that prefers the silence to the sound, the reflection to the explanation. This style of directing can also be seen all other of his work, although this is the apex of his work.