A Bomb for a Dictator
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Alex Joffé
Pierre Fresnay
Michel Auclair
Grégoire Aslan
Betty Schneider
Françoise Fabian
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Luis and Franco, two South American revolutionaries, plan to assassinate their country's dictator, General Ribera, as he returns by private plane from a holiday in France. Ribera decides to fly by commercial airliner instead, and the two men are forced to examine their ethics and patriotic zeal. Franco, who objects to killing the 50 other passengers, tries to prevent Luis from carrying a time-bomb onto the plane, but Luis kills him and boards with the bomb hidden in a typewriter. When Luis confronts Ribera, however, the dictator dies of a heart attack. Unable to disarm the bomb, Luis breaks a pressurized window, forcing the plane to crash-land on the island of Elba. Luis then carries the bomb into the sea, where it explodes and kills him.
Director
Alex Joffé
Cast
Pierre Fresnay
Michel Auclair
Grégoire Aslan
Betty Schneider
Françoise Fabian
Tilda Thamar
José Lewgoy
Pierre Tabard
Crew
Charles Akerman
L.-h. Burel
Jean-louis Castelli
Claude Coustaud
Emerio Genini
Germaine Hoden
Alex Joffé
Igor Keldich
Raymond Lamy
M. Lebreton
Raymond Lemarchand
Irénée Leriche
Jean Lévitte
Pierre Lévy
Elise Marion
Jacques Martin
Marius Martin
Robert Menegoz
Paul Misraki
Claude Orhon
Jacques Paris
Henri Raichi
Colette Robin
Claude Uselmann
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in Nice. Opened in Paris in November 1957 as Les fanatiques; running time: 90 min.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Winter February 1963
Released in United States Winter February 1963
