Descent Into Hell (1986)
Descente aux enfers
The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future...
- Date of release
- 1986-11-06
- TMDB
- 4.9 / 10 (45)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Director
- Francis Girod
Casting
- Claude Brasseur — Alan Kolber
- Sophie Marceau — Lola Kolber
- Betsy Blair — Mrs. Burns
- Hippolyte Girardot — Philippe Devignat
- Sidiki Bakaba — Theophile Bijou
- Umban Gomez de Kset
- Baaron
- Jean-Baptiste Tiémélé
- Sotigui Kouyaté
- Gérard Rinaldi — Elvis
- Marie Dubois — Lucette Beulemans
- Cyliane Guy
Interesting facts
Descent into Hell is a 1986 French psychological thriller film directed by Francis Girod from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jean-Loup Dabadie, based on the 1955 novel The Wounded and the Slain by David Goodis. The film stars Claude Brasseur and Sophie Marceau as a married couple—she with a dark secret in her past and he, an author suffering from both writer's block and alcoholism—who undergo experiences which strain their relationship to breaking point while vacationing in Haiti.
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