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Alain Bashung (born Alain Baschung [alɛ̃ baʃuŋ]) (1 December 1947 – 14 March 2009) was a French singer, songwriter and actor.
Alain Bashung was the son of a Breton factory worker and French Kabyle father, whom he never knew. His mother remarried, and at the age of one, Bashung was sent to Strasbourg to live with his new stepfather's parents. He spent his childhood in the countryside.
A multi-platinum artist, Bashung received three awards during the ceremony at the Paris Zenith, including best male artist, best album for "Bleu Pétrole" (Barclay/Universal) and best live show. He spent his career singing a pop-chanson repertoire. With 11 trophies won since 1993, he was the most awarded artist in the history of the Victoires de la Musique. Bashung, who had cancer, had to postpone several dates of his last tour. While receiving his award, he said he hoped that record companies would "remain in a human dimension by making people happy with records."
Long beginnings
Boris Bergman
Jean Fauque
Other collaborations
Actors: Venantino Venantini (actor), Edouard Baer (actor), Bouli Lanners (actor), Marc Missonnier (producer), Jean-Pierre Kalfon (actor), Olivier Delbosc (producer), Serge Larivière (actor), Gérald Laroche (actor), Roger Dumas (actor), Jean Rochefort (actor), Laurent Terzieff (actor), Sophie Reine (editor), Isabelle Ribis (miscellaneous crew), François Pujol (miscellaneous crew), Anna Mouglalis (actress),
Plot: This is just another roadside cafeteria. Gino, who enters it discreetly, is an armed robber ... without an arm! He tries to hold up the place but fails pitifully: the pretty waitress won't allow! Two amateur kidnappers take a rich teenage girl hostage and want to exchange her for ransom. But their victim is not easy to deal with. Two singers meet in the cafeteria by chance and talk about a stolen song and a stolen woman. Five seventy-year-old retired robbers also meet at the cafeteria - where their hideout used to be - and work out a last caper. In the end, after having tried to steal from each other, go away together.
Keywords: absurdism, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, apartment, attempted-murder, black-and-white, card-playing, episodic-structure, fast-motion-scene, flashback, gangster