Movie: The Savage State

Top 10 Billed Cast

Marie-Christine Barrault
Marie-Christine Barrault

Laurence Laurençon

Claude Brasseur
Claude Brasseur

Gravenoire

Jacques Dutronc
Jacques Dutronc

Avit

Doura Mané
Doura Mané

Patrice Doumbe

Michel Piccoli
Michel Piccoli

Orlaville

Baaron
Baaron

Modimbo

Umban Gomez de Kset
Umban Gomez de Kset

Kotoko

Jean-Baptiste Tiémélé
Jean-Baptiste Tiémélé

Gohanda

Rüdiger Vogler
Rüdiger Vogler

Tristan

Peter Bachelier
Peter Bachelier

Renard

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1978-04-18

  • Average

    6.2

  • Rating:

    3.1 starts
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  • Languages:

    Français

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