Les Fanatiques

Les Fanatiques is a French film directed by Alex Joffé and released in 1957.

Plot

A revolution has just happened in a South American country while its dictator is away on a trip. He decides to return to subdue the revolutionaries. On the flight to Rome, he meets Luis Vargas, the leading opponent to his dictatorial regime. But General Ribéra learns that Luis has taken this flight to kill him, having boarded with a bomb hidden in a typewriter. Ribéra dies from a heart attack, leaving Luis to do everything he can to save the passengers.

Cast

  • Pierre Fresnay : Luis Vargas, fanatical revolutionary
  • Michel Auclair : Diego Dias, airport manager, friend of Luis
  • Françoise Fabian : Mlle Lambert, air hostess
  • Grégoire Aslan : General Antonio Ribéra, dictator
  • Thilda Thalmar : Juana Ribéra, the general's wife
  • Betty Schneider : Lili, young passenger on flight to Rome
  • Pierre Tabard : Sevelli
  • José Lowgoy : Ramirez
  • Edward Fleming : a passenger
  • René Hell : Coti, airport baggage handler
  • Grégory Chmara : the passenger who asked a question
  • Pascal Alexandre : François, the little boy
  • Olivier Darrieux / Jean Olivier : the man who asks Diego to take the passegers
  • René Alone
  • Luce Aubertin
  • Georges Debret
  • François Marié
  • Jean Chapot
  • Geneviève Antonelli
  • Pierre Cosson
  • Bernard Privat
  • Armand Tabuteau
  • André Bonnarel
  • Véronique Deschamps
  • Daniel Crohem
  • Lucien Camiret

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