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La Balance is a french film of genre Drama directed by Alain Tasma released in USA on 20 november 1983 with Nathalie Baye
La Balance (1982)
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Add to a movie listLa Balance (U.S. title: The Nark; literal translation : The Informer) is a 1982 French film directed by Bob Swaim and starring Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Tchéky Karyo, Maurice Ronet and Jean-Paul Comart. It won the César Award for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Actress, and was nominated for Most Promising Actor (twice), Best Director, Best Writing - Original and Best Editing. The film had a total of 4,192,189 admissions in France becoming the 5th highest grossing film of the year.
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Nicole is a streetwalker in Paris. Her former racketeer boyfriend and pimp, Dédé, has been excluded from the business of a local mob boss, Roger Massina, because of a romantic dispute over Nicole. When a police informant is killed, the police decide to recruit Dédé as a replacement. The police raid Dédé's apartment, find a gun, and blackmail him into becoming an informant using this and other threats.Actors
Nathalie Baye
(Nicole Danet)
Richard Berry
(Mathias Palouzi)
Maurice Ronet
(Roger Massina)
Bernard Freyd
(Le Capitaine)
France Anglade
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