In this low-budget thriller from director Jacek Gasiorowski, a young son slowly becomes aware of a sleazy underworld inhabited by the oddballs and dangerous men that his father must deal with in order to collect the money he needs to pay off a drug debt. Denis (Hugues Quester is a designer who resorts to selling drugs to survive, but now his drug bosses give him the length of one day to come up with the money he owes them, or else. His son Pierrot (Pierre Champenois) goes along with him, as the two frantically move from one end of town to the other, trying to collect from a wide variety of people: a Vietnamese heroin addict, a dealer and musician, and others on the fringe. In the meantime, Denis' period of grace is quickly running out, and young Pierrot has received a crash-course on the lower rungs of humanity.
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Hugues Quester
Denis
Known for
Three Colors: Blue
A Tale of Springtime
Thuy An Luu
Sonia
Known for
Diva
Off Limits
Jacek Gasiorowski
Anne Alvaro
Monique, l'ex-femme de Denis
Known for
The Taste of Others
The Clink of Ice
Jacques Lebas
Roland Blanche
Jules
Pierrot Champenois
Pierrot
Jacques Dumur
Le clown
Also in
Acts of the Apostles
Rak
Jean-Luc Kayser
Le mari de Monique
Jacques Vincey
Le voyou nerveux
Serge Lemkine
Sergio
Marie-Thérèse Vivarès
La femme aux lunettes noires
Jacek Gąsiorowski Director
First release July 25, 1985
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · July 25, 1985
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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