Franz
Directed by Jacques Brel
Plot
In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the men, and Leonie, reserved, formal, conservative. Leonie finds herself attracted to Leon, a Belgian who was a mercenary in Katanga in 1964, wounded and carrying psychological scars as well. The other men continually play practical jokes on Leon, some of them cruel. As Leon courts Leonie, his horrid mother brings him emotional distress as do his memories of war. Can the two of them get past these obstacles?
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Cast
Jacques Brel
Léon
Barbara
Léonie
Danièle Evenou
Catherine
Fernand Fabre
Antoine
Louis Navarre
Armand
Ceel
Pascal
Serge Sauvion
Serge
François Cadet
Jules
Luc Poret
Henri
Jacques Provins
Grosjean
Catherine Bady
Madame Grosjean
Simone Max
Léon's mother
Roger Darton
Mother's lover
Edouard Caillau
Maître d'hôtel
André Gevrey
Coachman