---
title: 'Descente Aux Enfers (1986)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Francis Girod'
released: '1986-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 85
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'France'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/descente-aux-enfers-1986'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090933/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Descente Aux Enfers (1986)

1986 · 85 min · Drama · France

Original title: Descente aux enfers

## Synopsis

Descent into Hell is a 1986 French psychological thriller film directed by Francis Girod from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jean-Loup Dabadie, based on the 1955 novel The Wounded and the Slain by David Goodis. The film stars Claude Brasseur and Sophie Marceau as a married couple—she with a dark secret in her past and he, an author suffering from both writer's block and alcoholism—who undergo experiences which strain their relationship to breaking point while vacationing in Haiti.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Francis Girod](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-girod)
- **Screenplay:** [Jean-Loup Dabadie](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-loup-dabadie)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Georges Delerue](https://cinepixo.com/people/georges-delerue)
- **Producer:** [Ariel Zeitoun](https://cinepixo.com/people/ariel-zeitoun)
- **Director of Photography:** [Charles Van Damme](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-van-damme)
- **Editor:** [Geneviève Winding](https://cinepixo.com/people/genevieve-winding)

## Cast

- [Claude Brasseur](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-brasseur)
- [Marie Dubois](https://cinepixo.com/people/marie-dubois)
- [Betsy Blair](https://cinepixo.com/people/betsy-blair)
- [Sidiki Bakaba](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidiki-bakaba)
- [Sotigui Kouyaté](https://cinepixo.com/people/sotigui-kouyate)
- [Hippolyte Girardot](https://cinepixo.com/people/hippolyte-girardot)
- [Gérard Rinaldi](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerard-rinaldi)
- [Sophie Marceau](https://cinepixo.com/people/sophie-marceau)
- [Mohamed Camara](https://cinepixo.com/people/mohamed-camara)

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