Franz

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?

Directed by Jacques Brel

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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

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