Wasteland (1960 film)

Wasteland () is a 1960 French Drama film directed by Marcel Carné and starring Danielle Gaubert and Maurice Caffarelli. The story is loosely based on the novel Tomboy by Hal Ellson.

Plot

Around a newly built HLM stretch wasteland and brownfield providing refuge to young people fleeing the unfathomable tedium of family life in the Paris suburbs. They share their secrets, the products of their thefts, submit to strict rituals. The sanctity of their revolt is highlighted by the initiation by jumping blindfolded and blood rite of passage. Dan, a beautiful young tomboy, rules the clan.

But the gang threatens increasingly sliding into serious crime, which is condemned by Dan and Lucky, a big brawler boy but who begins to consider an orderly life. Now they are ostracized along with the young Babar, accused of being a stool pigeon. Lucky, on the run, and Dan discover a mutual romantic inclination, while Babar, cruelly mistreated and humiliated, commits suicide.

Cast

Danielle Gaubert as Dan

Roland Lesaffre as Big Chief

Maurice Caffarelli as Lucky

Constantin Andrieu as Marcel

Jean-Louis Bras as Babar

Dominique Dieudonné as Le râleur

Denise Vernac as Marcel's mother

François Nocher

Alfonso Mathis as Hans

Pierre Richard

Georges Wilson as His Honour J. Royer the juvenile judge

Dominique Davray as Dan's mother

Simone Berthier as Babar's mother

Pierre Collet as Lucky's father

Claudine Auger as Prisunic' saleswoman shouting stop thief

Dominique Lépinay

Pierre Parel

Anne Béranger

Gib Grossac as The show announcer at the fair

Georgette Peyron

Jacques Berger

Jacques Galland as Prisunic's manager

Jacques Mancier as Babar's father

Charles Bayard as An onlooker at Prisunic

Louisette Rousseau as A woman at Prisunic

External links

Films directed by Marcel Carné

1960 films

French black-and-white films

1960s French-language films

French drama films

1960s teen drama films

Films set in Paris

1960 drama films

1960s French films