The Necrophile

Jul 13, 2004

0h 38m

★ 3.9

Overview

A story of a very ordinary man who just happens to be necrophile. (He is also like to eat cockroaches.) Problems begins when his pretty orphan cousin came to live with him...

Genres

Drama

Horror

Mystery

Production Companies

ARTE France Cinéma

Abracadra

Les Productions de l'Amour Fou

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Cast

M. Montaldo

Freddy Bournane

La petite fille

Ilona Szabo

Le jeune garçon

Mohammed Aamoun

La concierge

Jenny Bel'Air

L'infirmière

Sissi Duparc

La mourante

Morgane Maugran

Le clochard

Alain Burosse

Flic rousse

Agnès Vallée

La prostituée

Valérie Donzelli

La journaliste

Christine Brücher

The old man’s daughter married the foreigner and moved abroad. Only his neighbor Gienyk remembers his name. Others call him “Beard”. “Beard” feeds hens, smokes cheap cigarettes, goes fishing as an ordinary villager. But nobody, even Gienyk knows what’s on his mind. His daughter visits him while passing by. He’s not at home at that moment. When he comes back, he founds his daughter on the threshold, ready to leave. The old man sees off his daughter with sadness. And then takes the gun. Everything’s going to change in a moment… The Beard will disappear.

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