L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African state. Laurence (Marie-Christine Barrault) suffers the outrage of her white acquaintances, including her former lover Gravenoir (Claude Brasseur) and her ex-husband Avit (Jacques Dutronc), for her affair with Patrice Doumbe (Doura Mane), an official in the new government. He in turn is ridiculed by his fellow cabinet ministers for stepping out with a white woman. The vilification escalates to such a point that Patrice is brutally murdered, and Laurence barely escapes the country alive, with the help of her ex-husband Avit.
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Marie-Christine Barrault
Laurence Laurençon
Claude Brasseur
Gravenoire
Jacques Dutronc
Avit
Doura Mané
Patrice Doumbe
Michel Piccoli
Orlaville
Baaron
Modimbo
Umban Gomez de Kset
Kotoko
Jean-Baptiste Tiémélé
Gohanda
Rüdiger Vogler
Tristan
Peter Bachelier
Renard
Philippe Brizard
Paul
Pierre Walker
Swiss Minister
Marblum Jequier
Swiss Minister
Celia
Irène
Sidiki Bakaba
Comac
Francis Girod
Director
Francis Girod
Writer
Georges Conchon
Writer
Michel Piccoli
Producer
Francis Girod
Producer
Pierre Lhomme
Director of Photography
Pierre Jansen
Original Music Composer
Geneviève Winding
Editor
Jacques Fonteray
Costume Design
Corinne Jorry
Costume Design
Françoise Monico
Costume Design
Jean-Jacques Caziot
Production Design
