''The Big Brother'' (french: Le Grand Frère) is a 1982 French

crime drama film In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Ca ...

written and directed by Francis Girod and starring Gérard Depardieu. The film was entered into the main competition at the 39th edition of the

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival h ...

. For her performance

Souad Amidou Souad Amidou (born 4 July 1959) is a French actress. Biography She is the daughter of the actor Amidou. Her career started working with her father on the short film '' Le thé à la menthe'' in 1963. Then she was chosen by Claude Lelouch to ...

was nominated for Most Promising Actress at the 1983 César Awards.''La Revue du cinéma'' (418). Ligue française de l'enseignement et de l'éducation permanente, 1986.

Plot

Cast

* Gérard Depardieu as Gérard Berger / Bernard Vigo *

as Zina * Hakim Ghanem as Ali * Jean Rochefort as Charles-Henri Rossi *

Jacques Villeret Jacques Villeret (; 6 February 1951 – 28 January 2005) was a French actor, best known internationally for his role as François Pignon in the comedy ''Le Dîner de Cons''. During his career, he earned many awards including the prestigious ...

as Inspector Coleau *

Roger Planchon Roger Planchon (born 12 September 1931 in Saint-Chamond, Loire, died on 12 May 2009 in Paris), was a French playwright, director, and filmmaker. Biography Roger Planchon spent his childhood in the Ardèche, notably in Dornas. He found its inspir ...

as Inspector Valin *

Smaïn Smaïn (born Smaïn Fairouze, on January 3, 1958 in Constantine, Algeria) is a French comedian, humorist, writer, actor and director of Algerian descent. Filmography * 1984 : ''La smala ''La Smala'' ( en, The Entourage) is a 1984 French com ...

as Abdel *

Jean-Michel Ribes Jean-Michel Ribes (born 15 December 1946, in Paris) is a French playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, film maker and actor. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point. Between 1982 and 1984 Ribes had direct ...

as Client of Zina * Corinne Dacla as Gérard's lover * Christine Fersen as Jane * François Clavier as Castel

References

External links

* 1982 crime drama films 1982 films Films directed by Francis Girod French crime drama films 1980s French-language films 1980s French films {{1980s-France-film-stub