F. est un salaud, is a 1998 French/Swiss film based upon the novel of the same name by Martin Frank. It was filmed in Zürich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

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Switzerland

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. The setting is the early 1970's, Zurich. The film was shown in 1999 at the Locarno Film Festival , the Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...

, and the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival

1998 Toronto International Film Festival

The 1998 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 10 to September 19, 1998. A total of 311 films were screened during the ten-day festival, commencing with the opening gala, The Red Violin.-Galas:...

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Plot summary

Beni, age 15, becomes enamoured with a singer from the rock "The Minks", Fögi Müller, who is ten years older than him. Fögi ensnares him with the perceived glamor of being a musician, takes him on as the band's 'roadie', and at the same time seduces him. Beni unquestionably follows him, including following him into drug addiction. Beni's youthful innocence is destroyed in a milieu of sex, drinking and drugs, and rock-and-roll. He ends up prostituting himself to pay for Fögi's drug habit.

Primary cast

• Frédéric Andrau ... Fögi
• Vincent Branchet ... Beni Müller
• Urs Peter Halter ... Töbe
• Jean-Pierre von Dach ... Wäde