''Agent trouble'' is a
1987 French
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film directed by
Jean-Pierre Mocky and starring
Catherine Deneuve. It is based on the novel ''The Man Who Loved Zoos'' by
Malcolm Bosse.
Dominique Lavanant won the
César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in the film. The film was also nominated at the
1988 César Awards for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Music.
Plot
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, has been murdered, and she seeks to find out why and how. She knows that Victorien was witness to a mysterious government project where 50 tourists were killed by an unknown poison gas, and the bus they were travelling in was found at the bottom of a lake. Alex, a callous government assassin who is having marital problems with his wife Delphine, has orders to kill anyone who knows about the cover-up of that project, and Amanda soon becomes his target.
Cast
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Catherine Deneuve - Amanda Weber
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Richard Bohringer
Richard Bohringer (born 16 January 1942) is a French actor.
Personal life
Bohringer was born in Moulins, Allier, to a French mother and a German father. He is the father of actress Romane Bohringer, and has three other children, Mathieu, Ric ...
- Alex
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Tom Novembre - Victorien
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Dominique Lavanant - Catherine 'Karen' Dariller
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Sophie Moyse - Delphine
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Kristin Scott Thomas - Julie
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Sylvie Joly - Edna
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Héléna Manson - Madame Sackman
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Hervé Pauchon
Hervé is a French masculine given name of Breton origin, from the name of the 6th-century Breton Saint Hervé. The common latinization of the name is Herveus (also ''Haerveus''), an early (8th-century) latinization was ''Charivius''. Anglicized ...
- Tony
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Charles Varel - Norbert
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Maxime Leroux - Doctor Arms
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Pierre Arditi - Stanislas Gautier
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Antoine Mayor
Antoine is a French given name (from the Latin ''Antonius'' meaning 'highly praise-worthy') that is a variant of Danton, Titouan, D'Anton and Antonin.
The name is used in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, West Greenland, Haiti, French Guiana, ...
- Tintin
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Michel Varille
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- Tony's boyfriend
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Jacques Boudet - The writer
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Isabelle Mergault - The waitress
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Dominique Zardi - The guardian
Discography
The CD soundtrack composed by
Gabriel Yared is available on Music Box Records label
website.
References
External links
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1987 films
French thriller films
Films directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky
1980s French-language films
1980s French films
1987 thriller films
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