International Features Competition

Rascal

Vaurien

Swiss Premiere

Peter Dourountzis / France / 2020 / 95 min / Drama, Thriller
French / Subtitles English

A man gets out of prison. He is a seducer, a charlatan. He is likeable, he has a disarming smile. But he kills women. Pierre Deladonchamps lends his charm and gentleness to Djé, a diabolical angel in this first blood-curdling film. A revelation.

Rascal is inspired by Djé – a character in Errance, the director's first short film – and the story of three serial killers (Mamadou Traore, Patrick Trémeau and Guy Georges) who terrorized Paris. Peter Dourountzis paints a portrait of a chameleon with no conscience. Appearing and disappearing, he charms everyone in his path like a black angel. A disturbing, meandering film about the fringes of society, filled with explosive encounters with women.

Direction

Peter Dourountzis

Screenplay

Peter Dourountzis

Image

Jean-Marc Fabre - AFC

Editing

Valentin Durning - LMA

Sound

Emmanuel Bonnat, Lucien Richardson, Philippe Grivel

Music

Constantin Dourountzis

Production

10:15 Productions! (Sébastien Haguenauer), 10:15 Productions! (Guillaume Dreyfus)

With

Pierre Deladonchamps, Ophélie Bau, Sébastien Houbani

International sales

Kinology (Grégoire Graesslin)

Peter Dourountzis / France, 1979

Filmography

2016, Grands boulevards (short)

2015, Le dernier raccourci (short)

2014, Errance (short)