Équateur (film)

Équateur (, "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


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