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The Rebel

Original title: Le rebelle

1980 · 1h 45m

Directed by Gérard Blain

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Synopsis

After the death of his parents, Pierre is forced to care for his younger sister Nathalie by committing petty crimes. In a recurring motif of Gérard Blain’s cinema, Pierre is taken under the wing of an older gay man, Hubert , who offers him work and financial security; but when Hubert makes advances to him, Pierre robs him and takes up with a group of radical leftists who are planning terrorist attacks. Without employment, Pierre loses Nathalie to child services and spirals into desperation, finally erupting in an act of horrific violence. An x-ray showing the largely undiagnosed sickness of its time, and a stern warning to ours.

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Cast

  • Patrick Norbert
    Pierre

  • Michel Subor
    Beaufils

  • Isabelle Rosais
    Nathalie

  • Jean-Jacques Aublanc
    Alain

  • Françoise Michaud
    Corinne

  • Alain Jérôme
    Jean-Claude