Angelo lives only for his sport, Thai boxing. So, when he
fails to win the championship, he is consumed with anger. He
attacks his rival and insults his coach. Then he gets into a
street fight with his challenger, which ends with the latter's
death. When he emerges from prison six years later, Angelo is a
shadow of his former self. Then he meets Virginie and falls madly
in love. This romance gives him a new lease of life and he takes
up free fighting, adopting the name Scorpion...
Cast: Clovis Cornillac (Angelo),
Francis Renaud (Marcus),
Karole Rocher (Virginie),
Caroline Proust (Léa),
Jérôme Le Banner (Elias),
Olivier Marchal (De Boers),
Philippe Bas (Patrick),
Tadrina Hocking (Virginie's sister),
Titouan Laporte (Milan),
Tony Mpoudja (Moise),
Karim Belkhadra (Mec Federation),
Pascal Sid (Cameraman)
Country: France
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 98 min
The best of Japanese cinema
The cinema of Japan is noteworthy for its purity, subtlety and visual impact. The films of Ozu, Mizoguchi and Kurosawa are sublime masterpieces of film poetry.
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.