Return from Africa

Return from Africa

108 mins | Drama | March 23, 1973

An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is inspired by a poet and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director.

Return from Africa

108 mins | Drama | March 23, 1973

Return from Africa
An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is inspired by a poet and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), V.M. Productions, Filmanthrope, Groupe 5 Genève, Centre Européen Cinéma-Radio-Télévision (CECRT), Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR)
Original title Le Retour d’Afrique
Directors Alain Tanner
Writers

Cast

Josée Destoop

as Françoise Silvestre

François Marthouret

as Vincent Silvestre

Juliet Berto

as Juliet, la postière

Anne Wiazemsky

as Anne, la postière

Roger Ibáñez

as Emilio

Roger Jendly

as Marcel

François Roulet

as Jardinier

Pierre Holdener

as Jardinier

André Schmidt

as L'acheteur de la voiture