Zanzibar
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In this "inside look" at French filmmaking, Marechal - who is a has-been director - a producer, Vito Catene and Camile Dor, a big-name actress, have agreed to make a film about drugs, but don't have a story, financing, or any of the other elements needed to make it. This doesn't stop them; they cobble together the financing and begin shooting anyway. The producer is very fond of the leading actress, and when she gets hooked on drugs for real in the course of shooting what he feels to be a farcical imitation of a film, he gives up his shares in the film and heads off for the back of beyond (Zanzibar) to lick his wounds. To add insult to injury, the film winds up being a critical and commercial success.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1989-10-04
Runtime: 95 mins
Director: Christine Pascal
Writer: Robert Boner, Christine Pascal, Catherine Breillat
Spoken language: Français
Genres: Drama
Original title: Zanzibar
Production Companies: Société Générale de Gestion Cinématographique (SGGC), French Productions, Film et Vidéo Productions
Production Countries: France, Switzerland
Cast
Fabienne Babe
André Marcon
Francis Girod
Dominique Maurin
Marie-Armelle Deguy
Teco Celio
Raymond Jourdan
Axel Bogousslavsky
Valérie Schlumberger
Christian Pereira
Xavier Marchand
Lucile Flèche
Alain Stern
Pierre-Alain Chapuis
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