Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant ("balance") is murdered, the...
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Title: La balance (1982)
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| Nathalie Baye | ... | Nicole Danet | |
| Philippe Léotard | ... | André Laffont dit Dédé | |
| Richard Berry | ... | L'inspecteur Mathias Palouzi | |
| Maurice Ronet | ... | Roger Massina | |
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Bernard Freyd | ... | Le Capitaine |
| Christophe Malavoy | ... | Tintin | |
| Jean-Paul Comart | ... | Le Belge (as Jean-Paul Connart) | |
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Albert Dray | ... | Carlini |
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Florent Pagny | ... | Simoni |
| Tchéky Karyo | ... | Petrovic (as Tcheky Karyo) | |
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Raouf Ben Yaghlane | ... | Djerbi |
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Galia Salimo | ... | Sabrina - la prostituée (as Galia Dujardin) |
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Sam Karmann | ... | Paulo Sanchez |
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Robert Atlan | ... | Ayouche |
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Luc-Antoine Diquéro | ... | Picard |
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Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant ("balance") is murdered, the cops have to scramble for a replacement. Deciding on Dede, they begin to put a nasty squeeze on him and Nicole. Written by Paul Berk <pbnyc@compuserve.com>
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10 November 1982 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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What a nifty top of the B-film heap is this gritty Paris film, complete with love stories going bad, habits going strong, and cars going fast. Leotard has one of the great faces in the world and Nathalie Baye (in this outing new to me on release date) is just spectacularly vulnerable and perhaps a bit duplicitous. I would definitely make this part of my French film library. The film's co-director is from Evanston, Illinois! Bob Swaim has written films and directed them, mostly in France, and obviously learned his B-films on Saturdays with the rest of us and his France by living in it for a long time.