La Scarlatine (1983)
Directed by Gabriel Aghion

Comedy / Drama
aka: Scarlet Fever

Film Synopsis

In an old bourgeois building in the heart of Paris there lives a ten-year-old boy, Roger Palazzi, who has been brought up only by women: his mother Nicole, his grandmother Minou and his great-grandmother Génia.  The Palazzis are a family of Italian aristocrats who were expelled from Egypt in the early days of the Republic.  The women of the family are all a little nostalgic about the splendour of their past.  Only Nicole goes out to work.  Tired of being smothered with feminine affection, Roger desperately wants to escape from this matriarchal household.
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Film Credits

  • Director: Gabriel Aghion
  • Script: Gabriel Aghion, Philippe Aghion, Michel Scognamillo, David Milhaud
  • Cinematographer: Robert Alazraki
  • Music: Gabriel Yared
  • Cast: Brigitte Fossey (Nicole Palazzi), Stéphane Audran (Minon Palazzi), Hito Jaulmes (Roger), Christophe Malavoy (Jacques Dubois), Roland Bertin (Simon), Jean-Paul Muel (Victor), Hella Petri (Génia), Agnès Garreau (Anne), Hénia Suchar (Yaël), Pierre-Loup Rajot (Nino), Robert Favart, Florence Guérin, Noëlle Leiris, Charlotte Maury-Sentier, Georges Mavros, Rose Thiéry, Gérard Vergez
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 90 min
  • Aka: Scarlet Fever

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