The Big Brother

Year: 1982

Runtime: 115 mins

Language: French

Director: Francis Girod

Crime

Bernard (Gérard Depardieu) is a corrupt doctor who murders his unfaithful wife and her lover, then joins the French Foreign Legion. En route to Africa his plane crashes; a passenger named Rossi shoots him and escapes. Villagers nurse Bernard back to health, rebuilds his fortune in Africa and claims a dead man’s French passport to secure identity.

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