The Big Brother
movie

Released September 08, 1982
Genres:
Overview
The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure -- the not-so-good doctor kills his wife because she is having an affair, and he kills her lover too. Then he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to the former French colonies in Africa, the plane he is in crashes, and Rossi, a "friend" on the plane with some overweight in carry-on money, shoots Bernard and takes off, leaving him for dead. He is nursed back to life and health by friendly villagers and just his luck, he not only manages to make his fortune in Africa, he also nabs a French passport from a dying man who will clearly not need it anymore unless the Pearly Gates have a French guard.
Cast

Gérard Depardieu
as
Gérard Berger / Bernard Vigo

Souad Amidou
as
Zina Khelifa
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Hakim Ghanem
as
Ali

Jean Rochefort
as
Charles-Henri Rossi

Roger Planchon
as
Inspecteur Valin

Jacques Villeret
as
Inspecteur Coleau

Christine Fersen
as
Jane la voisine

Smaïn
as
Abdel

François Clavier
as
Castel

Philippe Brizard
as
Le conseiller
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Tania Sourseva
as
Madame Huysmans

Jean-Michel Ribes
as
Client de Zina
Crew
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Francis Girod
as
Director
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Sam Ross
as
Novel
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Michel Grisolia
as
Writer

Jacques Bufnoir
as
Production Design

Guillaume Sciama
as
Sound
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Michèle Catonné
as
Sound Editor
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Francis Girod
as
Writer

Bernard Zitzermann
as
Director of Photography

Claude Villand
as
Sound Mixer

Ariel Zeitoun
as
Producer

Henri Colpi
as
Editor

Pierre Jansen
as
Original Music Composer