Release Date

18 Apr, 1978

Runtime

01:52: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African state. Laurence (Marie-Christine Barrault) suffers the outrage of her white acquaintances, including her former lover Gravenoir (Claude Brasseur) and her ex-husband Avit (Jacques Dutronc), for her affair with Patrice Doumbe (Doura Mane), an official in the new government. He in turn is ridiculed by his fellow cabinet ministers for stepping out with a white woman. The vilification escalates to such a point that Patrice is brutally murdered, and Laurence barely escapes the country alive, with the help of her ex-husband Avit.

Original Title

L'État sauvage

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Actors

Marie-Christine Barrault

Claude Brasseur

Jacques Dutronc

Doura Mané

Michel Piccoli

Baaron

Umban Gomez de Kset

Jean-Baptiste Tiémélé

Rüdiger Vogler

Peter Bachelier

Philippe Brizard

Pierre Walker

Marblum Jequier

Celia

Sidiki Bakaba

Isabelle Gautier

Akonio Dolo

Joseph Mono

Jacques Sereys

Assane Falle

Cheik Doukouré

Crew

Georges Conchon

Francis Girod

Francis Girod

Michel Piccoli

Pierre Jansen

Pierre Lhomme

Geneviève Winding

Jean-Jacques Caziot

Jacques Fonteray

Corinne Jorry

Françoise Monico

Eric Muller

William Robert Sivel

Francis Girod