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Claude Bernard-aubert
Director
Jacques Richard
Bob Stanley
Toto Bissainthe
Bessie Vance
Samba Ababaka
Vance
Grégoire Aslan
Stanley
Roger Blin
Film Details
Also Known As
Les tripes au soleil, Questione di pelle
Release Date
Feb
1969
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Globe Films International; Lodice; Zodiaque Productions
Distribution Company
American Film Distributing Corp.
Country
France
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 45m
Synopsis
In the racially segregated desert town of Cicada, Bob, a former paratrooper, and Bessie, a black woman, fall in love. The townspeople violently oppose the affair, and there is a confrontation between the lovers' fathers. Although the two men prepare to fight in the desert, their hatred dissolves when they discover a spring. They return to the town with the hope of bringing the people together. Spurned by the populace, the two families leave to form their own community.
Director
Claude Bernard-aubert
Director
Cast
Jacques Richard
Bob Stanley
Toto Bissainthe
Bessie Vance
Samba Ababaka
Vance
Grégoire Aslan
Stanley
Roger Blin
Nico Pepe
Doudou Babet
Anne Carrère
Guy Tréjan
Douta Seck
Alice Sapritch
Lucien Raimbourg
Hubert De Lapparent
Mara Berni
Milly Vitale
Nicole Dieudonné
André Certes
Théo Bipolet
Lud Germain
Paul Bisciglia
J.-p. Dréan
Jacques Bézard
Bob Ingarao
Alain Roulleau
Crew
Claude Accursi
Dial
Robert Alliel
Camera
Claude Bernard-aubert
Screenwriter
Alexis Bodik
Sound boom
Stan Borden
Presented By
Jean Collomb
Camera
Geneviève Cortier
Screenplay girl
J.-paul Coutan-laboureur
Art Director
Emile Darbel
Associate Producer
André Davanture
Assistant film Editor
Emile Dechelle
Prop
François Dieudonné
Stills
Catherine Giboyau
Costumes
Serge Groffe
Makeup
Ginette Heftler
Prod Secretary
André Hodeir
Music
Jean Isnard
Director of Photography
Urbain Loiseau
Sound Recording
André Louis
Sound
Louis Manella
Production Manager
Gabriel Rongier
Film Editor
Raoul Sangla
Assistant Director
Robert Schneider
Camera
Robert Taillandier
Assistant art Director
Pierre Vouillon
Loc Manager
Film Details
Also Known As
Les tripes au soleil, Questione di pelle
Release Date
Feb
1969
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Globe Films International; Lodice; Zodiaque Productions
Distribution Company
American Film Distributing Corp.
Country
France
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 45m
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Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in and around Causses, Millau, and Nice. Released in Paris in May 1959 as Les tripes au soleil; in Rome in September 1959 as Questione di pelle.
