La Travestie (1988)
Directed by Yves Boisset
Drama
La Travestie (1988)
Film Synopsis
Nicole Armingault, a young provincial lawyer, leads her three lovers to think she is pregnant so that she can extort money from each of them to have an abortion. She then steals more money from her employer before fleeing to Paris, where she starts a new life disguised as a man. She has no difficulty attracting women and soon moves in with a prostitute, Myriam. Nicole sets herself up as a pimp and becomes a prostitute herself. Then she is hired as a housemaid for a doctor, whose wife Anne-Marie will become her next victim...© James Travers
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Film Credits
- Director: Yves Boisset
- Script: Yves Boisset, Robert Geoffrion, Al James, Alain Scoff, Alain Roger (novel)
- Cinematographer: Yves Dahan, Louis de Ernsted
- Music: François Dompierre
- Cast: Zabou Breitman (Nicole Armingault), Anna Galiena (Myriam), Valérie Steffen (Anne-Marie), Yves Afonso (Alain), Christine Pascal (Christine), Odile Schmitt (Jackie), Bernard Farcy (Le Hollandais), Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus (Un client), Nini Crépon (Le client brouteur), Philippe Bruneau (Le premier amant), Jacky Pratoussy (Le deuxième amant), Agnès Gattegno (Le médecin), Muriel Mezel (L'infirmière), André Julien (Le client volé), Denise Péron (La mère de Nicole), Pascale Arboux, Christian Baltauss, Patrice Bertrand, Yves Boisset, Julien Bukowski
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Support: Color
- Runtime: 90 min
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