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Friends (The)
Original Title
Les Amis- Director: Gérard Blain
- Writer: Gérard Blain
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In this French film, Philippe (Philippe March) is an older man and an industrialist whose wife is confined to her bed. They have no children. As he is preparing to go on a vacation to the seaside, he strikes up an acquaintance with Paul (Yann Favre), a young working-class boy, and decides to bring him along. This is Paul's first glimpse of how the other half lives, with their first-class hotels and so on. When he meets some aristocratic young people at the resort, he tries to put over the fiction that he is of their class, with poor success. One of the film's highlights occurs when he confides his deception and its difficulties to Philippe.
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Cast & Characters
Philippe March as Philippe;
Jean-Claude Dauphin as Nicolas;
Nathalie Fontaine as Marie-Laure;
Yann Favre as Paul;
Dany Roussel as La mere de Paul;
Claude Larcher as Beatrice;
Helene Zanicolli as Monique;
Christian Chevreuse as Maitre Manege;
Martin Pierlot as Jean-Marc;
Liliane Valais as La mere de Marie-Laure;
Vincent Gauthier as Olivier;
Sylvie Delanoe;
Jean-Claude Holzen as Richard;
Dominique Oudard as Le groom