Jack Baker arrives in Tahiti to write a new biography on the painter
Paul Gauguin. Here, he meets Cohn, a con artist who is trying to
pass himself off as one of Gauguin's descendents. Baker is not
taken in by Cohn's crude deception at first, but later he begins to
have his doubts...
Script: Frédéric Blum,
Pierre Chosson,
Olivier Dazat,
Romain Gary (novel)
Cinematographer: Bernard Lutic
Cast:Gérard Jugnot (Cohn),
Jean-Marc Barr (Baker),
Viktor Lazlo (Meeva),
Claude Piéplu (Ryckmans),
François Perrot (Bizien),
Daniel Prévost (Verdouillet),
Yvon Arai (Tchong-Fat),
François Ellis (Mataoa),
Roland Bourcard (Richard Boulier),
Colette Pietri-Audemars (Colette Boulier),
Marie Verdi (La femme de Ryckmans),
Hélène de Saint-Père (La jeune femme terrasse),
Aleksandr Medvedev (Hans Grutt),
Philippe Dormoy (Le Goff),
Alain Deviegre (M. Plouchard),
Dany Canon (Mme Plouchard),
Nathalie Kamia (Femme bar),
Max Desrau (Père Ettley),
Francis Bouc (Père Safran),
Paul Rieger (Père Zik)
Country: France
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 90 min
The best French Films of the 1920s
In the 1920s French cinema was at its most varied and stylish - witness the achievements of Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein and Jacques Feyder.
From its birth in 1895, cinema has been an essential part of French culture. Now it is one of the most dynamic, versatile and important of the arts in France.