Équateur (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.

Plot

Further information: Tropic Moon

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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

• 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

External links

• Équateur at IMDb