Pantalaskas
1960-02-08 | 90 minutes
Plot Summary
An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in the title role of the morose, would-be suicide. Set in Paris and taking place over an entire night, the story has a complication in that the trio who want to prevent the suicide do not speak the man's language -- he is Lithuanian and speaks no French. So the protagonists comb the underbelly of a nighttime Paris, looking high and low but mostly low for anyone who speaks Lithuanian. Depending mainly on dialogue for its impact, the verbose drama reveals how the protagonists undergo a transformation as the night wears on.
Cast
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Carl StuderCasimir Pantalaskas
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Bernard LajarrigeClergeon
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Daniel EmilforkThe baron
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Jacques MarinTropmann
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Albert RémyGeorges Battistini
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Dominique BoscheroThe brunette prostitute
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Marie-Hélène DastéThe illuminated
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Hubert DeschampsRabiniot
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Patrick de BardineThe son of the illuminated
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Henri Belly
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Paul DemangeThe librarian