Pantalaskas

An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in the title role of the morose, would-be suicide. Set in Paris and taking place over an entire night, the story has a complication in that the trio who want to prevent the suicide do not speak the man's language -- he is Lithuanian and speaks no French. So the protagonists comb the underbelly of a nighttime Paris, looking high and low but mostly low for anyone who speaks Lithuanian. Depending mainly on dialogue for its impact, the verbose drama reveals how the protagonists undergo a transformation as the night wears on.

• Paul PaviotDirector
• Jean WienerOriginal Music Composer
• Paul PaviotWriter

• Carl StuderCasimir Pantalaskas
• Ana María CassanAnna-Maria
• Bernard LajarrigeClergeon
• Daniel EmilforkThe baron
• Jacques MarinTropmann
• Albert RémyGeorges Battistini
• Dominique BoscheroThe brunette prostitute
• Marie-Hélène DastéThe illuminated
• Hubert DeschampsRabiniot
• Yvette EtiévantMaria Clairgeon
• Lucien GuervilBrigadier Cogneau
• Max MontavonThe waiter