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The Associate (1979)
Directed by René Gainville
Overview
An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father—although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to “kill” his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.
Length 94 minutes
Actors
Michel Serrault | Claudine Auger | Catherine Alric | Judith Magre | Bernard Haller | Marco Perrin | Jean Martin | Fabrice Josso | Henri Virlojeux | Mathieu Carrière | Vadim Glowna | Astrid Frank | Béatrice Radian | Daniel Prévost | Jacques Legras | René Alié | Olga Valéry | Dominique Zardi | Jacques Galland | Nathalie Courval | Jacques Dynam | Jean-Pierre Coffe | Jean Leuvrais | Patrice Laffont | Christian Morin | Sophie Grimaldi | Florence Brunold | Jean Degrave | Lionel Vitrant | Patrick Gobert | Pierre Belot | Carmelo Petix | Madeleine Bouchez | Jean-Claude Carrière | Fanny Magier | Nicole Dessailly | Ernest Menzer | Raymond Pierson | Albert Lerner | Francis Perrin | Pierre Mondy