Wasteland (1960 film)
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Directed by | Marcel Carné |
Written by | Marcel Carné Henri-François Rey Hal Ellson (novel) |
Produced by | Louis Dolivet |
Starring | Danielle Gaubert Roland Lesaffre Denise Vernac |
Cinematography | Claude Renoir |
Edited by | Henri Rust Marguerite Renoir |
Music by | Michel Legrand |
Distributed by | Cinédis |
Release date |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Countries | France Italy |
Language | French |
Wasteland (French: Terrain vague) is a 1960 French Drama film directed by Marcel Carné and starring Danielle Gaubert and . The story is loosely based on the novel Tomboy by Hal Ellson.
Plot[]
Around a newly built HLM stretch wasteland and brownfield providing refuge to young people fleeing the unfathomable tedium of family life in the Paris suburbs. They share their secrets, the products of their thefts, submit to strict rituals. The sanctity of their revolt is highlighted by the initiation by jumping blindfolded and blood rite of passage. Dan, a beautiful young tomboy, rules the clan.
But the gang threatens increasingly sliding into serious crime, which is condemned by Dan and Lucky, a big brawler boy but who begins to consider an orderly life. Now they are ostracized along with the young Babar, accused of being a stool pigeon. Lucky, on the run, and Dan discover a mutual romantic inclination, while Babar, cruelly mistreated and humiliated, commits suicide.
Cast[]
- Danielle Gaubert as Dan
- Roland Lesaffre as Big Chief
- as Lucky
- as Marcel
- as Babar
- as Le râleur
- Denise Vernac as Marcel's mother
- as Hans
- Pierre Richard
- Georges Wilson as His Honour J. Royer the juvenile judge
- Dominique Davray as Dan's mother
- as Babar's mother
- Pierre Collet as Lucky's father
- Claudine Auger as Prisunic' saleswoman shouting stop thief
- as The show announcer at the fair
- as Prisunic's manager
- as Babar's father
- as An onlooker at Prisunic
- as A woman at Prisunic
External links[]
- 1960 films
- French-language films
- Films directed by Marcel Carné
- French black-and-white films
- French films
- 1960s French-language films
- French drama films
- 1960s teen drama films
- Films set in Paris
- 1960 drama films
- 1960s French film stubs