Walking a Tightrope

Walking a Tightrope

120 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 1, 1991

Marcel Spadice is a famous writer with a criminal background and a penchant for handsome men. From time to time, he induces an attractive female admirer to arrange for him to be introduced to nice, talented young men who happen to be sufficiently handsome to interest him. At other times, the endless effort to woo these men (who are most often heterosexual) grows wearying, and he goes to the train station to pick up soldiers looking for some easy money and a night's lodging. In this film, the writer has grown enamored with a young circus laborer who wants to move up in the world, literally, by becoming a tightrope walker. Marcel cadges an introduction, and for a time sponsors the young man's training. However, when the boy suffers an accident which renders him unfit for his chosen vocation, Marcel loses interest in him and takes up with another young man.

Walking a Tightrope

120 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 1, 1991

Walking a Tightrope
Marcel Spadice is a famous writer with a criminal background and a penchant for handsome men. From time to time, he induces an attractive female admirer to arrange for him to be introduced to nice, talented young men who happen to be sufficiently handsome to interest him. At other times, the endless effort to woo these men (who are most often heterosexual) grows wearying, and he goes to the train station to pick up soldiers looking for some easy money and a night's lodging. In this film, the writer has grown enamored with a young circus laborer who wants to move up in the world, literally, by becoming a tightrope walker. Marcel cadges an introduction, and for a time sponsors the young man's training. However, when the boy suffers an accident which renders him unfit for his chosen vocation, Marcel loses interest in him and takes up with another young man.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Caroline Productions, France 3, La Sept Cinéma, Paris Classics Productions, Chevereau
Original title Les équilibristes
Directors Nikos Papatakis
Writers Nikos Papatakis

Cast

Michel Piccoli

as Marcel Spadice

Lilah Dadi

as Franz-Ali Aoussine

Polly Walker

as Hélène Lagache

Doris Kunstmann

as Christa Aoussine

Patrick Mille

as Fredy Babitchev

Juliette Degenne

as Jacqueline Masset

Laurent Hennequin

as Soldat

Olivier Pajot

as Diekman

Emiliano Suarez

as Le directeur du cirque en tournée

Michel Palmer

as Monsieur Loyal

Bernard Farcy

as Policier au commissariat

Guy Louret

as Agent auxiliaire Rouquet