Checkerboard (1959)
2h 5m
Running Time
May 6, 1959Release Date
Plot.
In a small Gallic village, tourists are regaled by street entertainers and brash prostitutes. One of the tourists, a black girl named Bessie, falls in love with local villager Bob, and he with her. Soon racial tensions erupt volcanically among tourists and townsfolk alike. All is forgiven when the respective parents of the hero and heroine save the village's water supply.
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Cast & Crew.
Toto Bissainthe
Bessie Vance
Grégoire Aslan
Stanley père
Douta Seck
Vance
Jacques Richard
Bob Stanley
Roger Blin
Slim, le guide
Milly Vitale
Daura
Claude Bernard-Aubert
Director
Claude Accursi
Writer
Anne Carrère
La touriste
Adolphe Osso
Producer
Nico Pepe
Le policier
Lucien Raimbourg
Le juge
André Hodeir
Composer
Jean Isnard
Cinematographer
Gabriel Rongier
Editor
Jean-Paul Coutan-Laboureur
Production Design / Art Direction
Catherine Giboyau
Costume Design
Details.
Wiki.
Claude Bernard-Aubert directed the 1959 film Questione di ple.