91 minutes
2/7/1972
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?
Jacques Brel
as Léon
Barbara
as Léonie
Danièle Evenou
as Catherine
Fernand Fabre
as Antoine
Louis Navarre
as Armand
Ceel
as Pascal
Serge Sauvion
as Serge
François Cadet
as Jules
Luc Poret
as Henri
Jacques Provins
as Grosjean
Catherine Bady
as Madame Grosjean
Simone Max
as Léon's mother
Roger Darton
as Mother's lover
Edouard Caillau
as Maître d'hôtel
André Gevrey
as Coachman
Hilda Van Roose