An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in the title role of the morose, would-be suicide. Set in Paris and taking place over an entire night, the story has a complication in that the trio who want to prevent the suicide do not speak the man's language -- he is Lithuanian and speaks no French. So the protagonists comb the underbelly of a nighttime Paris, looking high and low but mostly low for anyone who speaks Lithuanian. Depending mainly on dialogue for its impact, the verbose drama reveals how the protagonists undergo a transformation as the night wears on.
as Casimir Pantalaskas
as Anna-Maria
as Clergeon
as The baron
as Tropmann
as Georges Battistini
as The brunette prostitute
as The illuminated
as Rabiniot
as Maria Clairgeon
as Brigadier Cogneau
as The waiter
as The son of the illuminated
as A resident of Tropmann
as The fair ground
as A resident of Tropmann
as The librarian
as The scared lady
as The taxi driver
as Zuwalki
as (uncredited)
as The prostitute's mother (uncredited)
as Henri (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as The lady at the police station (uncredited)
