Adoption (1979)

  • NR
  • 01/10/1979 (FR)
  • Thriller, Drama
  • 1h 38m

Overview

A couple takes on a homeless teenager. The trio forms a family-like community that seems to work extremely informally and without many regulations. But then the harmonic situation escalates as the boy falls in love with his "adoptive mother".

Marc Grunebaum

Director, Screenplay

Bernard Stora

Screenplay

Magdeleine Dailloux

Screenplay

Peter Krall

Screenplay

Cast

Geraldine Chaplin's headshot

Geraldine Chaplin

Catherine
Jacques Perrin's headshot

Jacques Perrin

Jacques
Patrick Norbert's headshot

Patrick Norbert

Étienne
Gérard Lorin's headshot

Gérard Lorin

Doctor
May Chartrette's headshot

May Chartrette

Étienne's Grandmother
Chloé Caillat's headshot

Chloé Caillat

Madame Simone
Monique Delaroche's headshot

Monique Delaroche

Jacques' Mother
Jean-Paul Bernier's headshot

Jean-Paul Bernier

Jacques' Father

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