
A poet. A thief. Two strangers with nothing in common are about to trade their lives for a chance to cheat their destinies.
Overview
A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.
Cast
Jean Rochefort
Monsieur Manesquier
Johnny Hallyday
Milan
Pascal Parmentier
Sadko
Isabelle Petit-Jacques
Viviane, Manesquier's mistress
Édith Scob
Manesquier's Sister
Maurice Chevit
Hairdresser
Riton Liebman
Burly Guy
Olivier Fauron
Schoolboy
Véronique Kapoyan
Baker
Armand Chagot
Gardener of Manesquier
Michel Laforest
Pharmacist
Alain Guellaff
Surgeon
Hélène Chambon
Radiologist Nurse
Sophie Durand
Operating Room Nurse
Sébastien Bonnet
Burly Guy's Friend
The Girl on the Train
Closely Watched Trains
Tsotsi
The Italian Job
The Watcher
Kandahar
Gonin Saga
Neandertaler - Von der Entwicklung einer Menschenart
Contempt
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Oppenheimer
Julieta
Joker
American Beauty
In the House
Shutter Island
Sixteen Candles
Inception
Materialists