So Long, Stooge
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Director Claude Berri Music director Charlelie Couture Duration Language French | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Screenplay Claude Berri, Alain Page | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Alain Page , Claude Berri Release date 21 December 1983 (1983-12-21) Cast Coluche (Lambert), Agnès Soral (Lola), Richard Anconina (Youseff Bensoussan), Mahmoud Zemmouri (Rachid, un intermédiaire), Philippe Léotard (Bauer), Ahmed Ben Smail (Mahmoud)Similar movies Mad Max: Fury Road , John Wick , Furious 7 , The Exterminator , Deadbeat , Salt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
So Long, Stooge (French title: Tchao Pantin) is a 1983 film directed by Claude Berri. It is based on a novel by Alain Page.
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Coluche, the main actor, won the "Best Actor" award in 1984 César Award. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Plot
Lambert, a withdrawn middle-aged man, works the night shift at a Parisian petrol station. He has no friends, no family; his only companion is his bottle of rum. One night, a young Arab man, Bensoussan, enters his shop — and his life. This stranger has also no family, lives alone in a dingy room, and scrapes together a living as a drug dealer. The two solitary men develop a friendship — but this is brutally brought to an end when Bensoussan is killed in front of Lambert. Lambert soon realises that his new friend was murdered by his drug dealing associates and sets out to avenge his death — assisted by Lola, a punk girl who knew Bensoussan briefly. By doing this, Lambert manages to come to terms with his own tragic past.
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