---
title: 'A Bad Son (1980)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Claude Sautet'
released: '1980-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 110
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'France'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-bad-son-1980'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081678/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# A Bad Son (1980)

1980 · 110 min · Drama · France

Original title: Un mauvais fils

## Synopsis

A Bad Son is a 1980 French drama film directed by Claude Sautet. It tells the story of a young man who is sent back to France after a sentence for narcotics in the USA and tries to restart his life, but has difficulty relating to his widowed father and suffers the pain of falling in love with a girl who is an addict.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Claude Sautet](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-sautet)
- **Screenplay:** [Claude Sautet](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-sautet), [Daniel Biasini](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniel-biasini), [Jean-Paul Török](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-paul-torok)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Philippe Sarde](https://cinepixo.com/people/philippe-sarde)
- **Producer:** [Alain Sarde](https://cinepixo.com/people/alain-sarde), [Roland Girard](https://cinepixo.com/people/roland-girard)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jean Boffety](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-boffety)
- **Editor:** [Jacqueline Thiédot](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacqueline-thiedot)

## Cast

- [Patrick Dewaere](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrick-dewaere)
- [Mado Maurin](https://cinepixo.com/people/mado-maurin)
- [Brigitte Fossey](https://cinepixo.com/people/brigitte-fossey)
- [Raouf Ben Yaghlane](https://cinepixo.com/people/raouf-ben-yaghlane)
- [Jean-Claude Bouillaud](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-claude-bouillaud)
- [Marcel Portier](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcel-portier)
- [Pierre Maguelon](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-maguelon)
- [Yves Robert](https://cinepixo.com/people/yves-robert)
- [Jacques Dufilho](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-dufilho)
- [André Julien](https://cinepixo.com/people/andre-julien)
- [Claudine Delvaux](https://cinepixo.com/people/claudine-delvaux)
- [Christiane Cohendy](https://cinepixo.com/people/christiane-cohendy)
- [Sophie Artur](https://cinepixo.com/people/sophie-artur)
- [Dominique Zardi](https://cinepixo.com/people/dominique-zardi)
- [Antoine Bourseiller](https://cinepixo.com/people/antoine-bourseiller)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-bad-son-1980
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