The preferred Son

the Son preferred is a film French carried out by Nicole Garcia and left in 1994.

Synopsis

The life of Jean-Paul Mantegna, on the Riviera, share completely diverts some, as well professionally as sentimentally. Driven back financially, it must find a money large sum urgently. His/her father, Raphaël, of Italian origin and without activity, cannot anything for him. Jean-Paul then tries an approach of his two brothers: the elder one, Francois, rejected by the father because of his homosexuality and teacher with Martigues, does not have money while the junior, Philippe, a lawyer, categorically refuse to help it because of the relation that Jean-Paul had previously with his wife. To the barks, Jean-Paul subscribes a life insurance in the name of his father by falsifying the documents. At the time of which his/her father visits him, this last tomb accidentally with the sea under the eyes of Jean-Paul who temporizes before helping it. The old man contains himself in a dumbness to disappear shortly after…

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Distribution

Gerard Lanvin: Jean-Paul
Bernard Giraudeau: François
Jean-Marc Barr: Philippe
Roberto Herlitzka: Raphaël, the father
Margherita Buy: Anna Maria
Pierre Mondy: The dentist usurer
Antoinette Moya: Odette
Karin Viard: Martine

Around film

Distinctions

1995 : Price SACD with Nicole Garcia with the Cinematographic Meetings Franco-Americans of Avignon 1995.
1995: César of the best actor to Gerard Lanvin

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