Synopsis
An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in the title role of the morose, would-be suicide. Set in Paris and taking place over an entire night, the story has a complication in that the trio who want to prevent the suicide do not speak the man's language -- he is Lithuanian and speaks no French. So the protagonists comb the underbelly of a nighttime Paris, looking high and low but mostly low for anyone who speaks Lithuanian. Depending mainly on dialogue for its impact, the verbose drama reveals how the protagonists undergo a transformation as the night wears on.
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Cast
- Carl StuderCasimir Pantalaskas
- Ana María CassanAnna-Maria
- Bernard LajarrigeClergeon
- Daniel EmilforkThe baron
- Jacques MarinTropmann
- Albert RémyGeorges Battistini
- Dominique BoscheroThe brunette prostitute
- Marie-Hélène DastéThe illuminated
- Hubert DeschampsRabiniot
- Yvette EtiévantMaria Clairgeon