Flesh Color (

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: Couleur Chair) is a 35 mm film by François Weyergans (

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2005). Weyergans is one of the forty members known as immortals of the

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(L'Académie française). It features a band called Flesh Colour formed in 1976 in Brussels-Capital.

Starring

Dennis Hopper Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and photographer. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in '' Giant'' (1956). In the next ten year ...

* Veruschka von Lehndorff *

Bianca Jagger Bianca Jagger (born Blanca Pérez-Mora Macías; 2 May 1945)

Jorge Donn Jorge Donn (25 February 1947 in Ciudad Jardin, Buenos Aires – 30 November 1992 in Lausanne, Switzerland), was an Argentine internationally known ballet dancer. He was best known for his work with Maurice Béjart's '' Ballet of the 20th C ...

Laurent Terzieff Laurent Terzieff (27 June 1935, in Toulouse – 2 July 2010, in Paris) was a French actor. Biography Terzieff was the son of French ceramist Anne Wiazemsky Anne Wiazemsky (14 May 1947 – 5 October 2017) was a French actress and novelist. She made her cinema debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's '' Au Hasard Balthazar'' (1966), and went on to appear in severa ...

Roger Blin Roger Blin (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 22 March 1907 – Évecquemont, France, 21 January 1984) was a French actor and director. He staged world premieres of Samuel Beckett's '' Waiting for Godot'' in 1953 and ''Endgame'' in 1957.C. J. Ackerley ...

Lou Castel Lou Castel (born Ulv Quarzell; 28 May 1943) is a Swedish actor who became known through his work in Italian films. Life and career The son of a Swedish father and an Irish mother, Castel was born Ulv Quarzell in Bogotá, Colombia, where his ...

Presentation

This film was presented to the

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in the parallel section in 1978. It is unreleased.

Flesh Colour – the band

The band is composed of: * Friswa (guitar) from "Jenghis Khan". * Luc Hensill (guitar) from "Tomahawk Blues Band". * Michel Vanstappen (bass) from "John Lauwers Band". *

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(Drums) from

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. Flesh Color was a

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group active from 1976 to 1978, formed in Brussels. Freddy Nieuland, drummer of

, asked Luc Hensill in 1975 to reform with him his band. Luc accepted to start a new band with Freddy. Luc and Freddy asked Friswa to play with them. A friend of Friswa, Michel Van Stappen, came to play the bass guitar. Luc took the new group to the "Stage Night Club" of Forest National. One day, the writer and filmmaker Francois Weyergans invited the group to play music on his new movie "Couleur Chair" (in English: "Flesh Color") with

. François also asked the group to compose the film music. The band then decided for the first time on a name for their newly formed band, "Flesh Colour", like the film in which they starred.

External links

Luc Hensill SiteCouleur chair on BiFi
* 1978 films French musical films Films shot in Belgium Unreleased films French documentary films 1970s French films {{France-documentary-film-stub