Film

Adoption

8.019791h 38mThriller Drama

Director: Marc Grunebaum
Year: 1979

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".

Top cast

Geraldine Chaplin

Catherine

Jacques Perrin

Jacques

Patrick Norbert

Étienne

Gérard Lorin

Doctor

May Chartrette

Étienne's Grandmother

Chloé Caillat

Madame Simone

Monique Delaroche

Jacques' Mother

Jean-Paul Bernier

Jacques' Father

Marie Dupin

Nurse

Directed by

Marc Grunebaum

Written by

Bernard Stora, Marc Grunebaum, Magdeleine Dailloux, Peter Krall

Produced by

Jacques Perrin, Arthur Cohn, Chantal Perrin, Alain Quefféléan