Documentary - 1961 - B/W
Director :
85 minutes
Visa # 25 858
Isan # 0000-0002-2731-0000-H-0000-0000-N
Production : Les Films de la Pléiade
With : Abdoulaye FAYE, MORGAN, Luce VIDI, Marcel BRUCHARD, Milou PLADNER, YASUMIKO
Critique award, Venice Film festival, 1962.
Cameo of Jean-Paul Belmondo, as a member of the audience during the fight of the young Abdoulaye Faye.
Music by Michel Legrand and Georges Delerue.
Restoration 2K with the support of the CNC (Paris) .
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SUMMARY
The adventures of a young Senegalese, Abdoulaye Faye, who comes to Paris to try his luck as a boxer. His dream of winning the championship and conquering women - especially Michèle Morgan - whom he worships, his his adaptation to Paris life, the cold and fog which astonish him, occupy his thoughts. He meets a Japanese woman in the Bois de Boulogne, consults a medium. And then comes the championship fight.
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