Alain Resnais' film starring Gerard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre.
Jean Le Gall, born in comfortable circumstances, becomes director of Radio News. Janine Gamier, born into a Communist, working-class family hankers for the stage. Rene Ragueneau, born on a primitive farm, aims to be a textile tycoon.
Alain Resnais' award-winning film presents the lives and aspirations of three very different people against a discourse by Professor Henri Laborit on the biological basis of behaviour, intertwining them in a witty and challenging narrative in the first of a new selection of recent, outstanding foreign films.
Screenplay by JEAN GRUNALT.
Based on the works of PROFESSOR HENRI LABORIT.
Directed by ALAIN RESNAIS.
A French film with English subtitles.
(First showing on British television)