Équateur (film)

1983 film

Équateur

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

Release date

* 17 August 1983 (1983-08-17)

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]

## Plot[edit]

Further information: Tropic Moon

Map of French Gabon at the time Équateur is set.

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.

## Cast[edit]

* Francis Huster – Timar
* Barbara Sukowa – Adele
* Reinhard Kolldehoff – Eugene Schneider
* François Dyrek – Superintendent
* Jean Bouise – Public prosecutor
* Julien Guiomar – Bouilloux
* Roland Blanche – one-eyed man
* Murray Gronwall – the forester
* Stéphane Bouy – the pedlar
* Franck-Olivier Bonnet – the man from Lyon

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Équateur". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 21 June 2009.

## External links[edit]

* Équateur at IMDb

* v
* t
* e

Serge Gainsbourg

Discography

Studio albums|

* Du chant à la une !...
* N° 2
* L'Étonnant Serge Gainsbourg
* Serge Gainsbourg N° 4
* Gainsbourg Confidentiel
* Gainsbourg Percussions
* Initials B.B.
* Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg
* Histoire de Melody Nelson
* Vu de l'extérieur
* Rock Around the Bunker
* L'Homme à tête de chou
* Aux armes et cætera
* Mauvaises nouvelles des étoiles
* Love on the Beat
* You're Under Arrest

Compilation albums|

* Bonnie and Clyde

Live albums|

* Enregistrement public au Théâtre Le Palace
* Gainsbourg Live
* Le Zénith de Gainsbourg
* 1963 Théâtre des Capucines

Tribute albums|

* Intoxicated Man
* Pink Elephants
* Great Jewish Music: Serge Gainsbourg
* Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited

Film scores|

* Cannabis

Films|

* Je t'aime... moi non plus
* Équateur
* Charlotte for Ever

Related articles|

* Gainsbourg (vie héroïque)
* Charlotte Gainsbourg
* Jane Birkin
* Caroline von Paulus

This article related to a French film of the 1980s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

This article related to cinema in Gabon is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template