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Pantalaskas (1960)
Genres: Comedy, Drama
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.
- Carl Studer as Casimir Pantalaskas
- Ana María Cassan as Anna-Maria
- Bernard Lajarrige as Clergeon
- Daniel Emilfork as The baron
- Jacques Marin as Tropmann
- Albert Rémy as Georges Battistini
- Dominique Boschero as The brunette prostitute
- Marie-Hélène Dasté as The illuminated