Équateur | |
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Directed by | Serge Gainsbourg |
Written by | Serge Gainsbourg Georges Simenon |
Based on | Tropic Moon by Georges Simenon |
Starring | Francis Huster |
Cinematography | Willy Kurant |
Edited by | Babeth Si Ramdane |
Music by | Serge Gainsbourg |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Countries | France West Germany Gabon |
Languages | French German |
Équateur ([e.kwa.tœʁ], "equator") is a 1983 French drama film directed by Serge Gainsbourg, starring Francis Huster. Based on a 1933 novel by Georges Simenon, it was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Gabon, the 1930s, then part of French Equatorial Africa. A Frenchman comes to Libreville to work for a timber company; he falls for a mysterious white woman who is involved with murder.