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    Les équilibristes

    Poster of the movie Les équilibristes
    1991     Romantic drama    
    France
    1h 59min
    Original lang: French

    Based on an incident in the life of director Nico Papatakis's former friend and collaborator Jean Genet. Marcel Spadice (Michel Piccoli) is a gay writer and provocateur, whose infatuation with an Arab-German circus worker (Lilah Dadi) leads him to try to turn the young man into the world's greatest tightrope walker. When Marcel begins to pursue a new object of desire, however, his callousness unleashes tragedy.

    Directed byNikos Papatakis
    Written byJean Genet, Nikos Papatakis

    Starring

    Michel Piccoli
    Lilah Dadi
    Polly Walker
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