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États d'âme (1986)
Directed by Jacques Fansten
Overview
In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is a television broadcaster; the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector, a tax man, the director of a cultural center, and a sociologist who is about to step into a ministerial position. Their interlocking lives are told in alternating vignettes over a four-year period, and the professions director Jacques Fansten has chosen for his main characters seem to be a comment on the media, education, budget or finance, the arts, and government bureaucracy under Socialist rule.
Length 101 minutes
Actors
Tchéky Karyo | Robin Renucci | Xavier Deluc | Jean-Pierre Bacri | François Cluzet | Sandrine Dumas | Nathalie Nell | Zabou Breitman | Martine Sarcey | Jean-Paul Roussillon | Michel Berto | Bernard Freyd | Marilyne Canto | Jean Lescot | Pascale Bardet | Jean-Paul Comart | Evelyne Didi | Gérard Croce | Serge Moati | Bernard Waver | Jacques Chailleux | Eric Elmosnino | Guillaume Le Guellec | Micky Sebastian | Richard Guerry