Checkerboard (film)

Checkerboard (French: Les tripes au soleil) is a 1959 French-Italian drama film directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert and starring Grégoire Aslan, Douta Seck and Jacques Richard.^[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean-Paul Coutan-Laboureur.^[2] It is noted for its jazz score by André Hodeir.^[3]

• Grégoire Aslan as Stanley père
• Douta Seck as Vance
• Jacques Richard as Bob Stanley
• Toto Bissainthe as Bessie Vance
• Roger Blin as Slim, le guide
• Nico Pepe as Le policier
• Lucien Raimbourg as Le juge
• Doudou Babet as Le joueur de cartes
• Anne Carrère as La touriste
• Guy Tréjan as Le pasteur
• Hubert de Lapparent as Esaü, l'architecte
• Mara Berni as Virginia
• André Certes as Le médecin
• Alice Sapritch as La tenancière du Milk Bar
• Ababacar Samb-Makharam as Le jeune Noir agressé
• Milly Vitale as Daura
• Lud Germain as Le fou
• Nicole Dieudonne as La jeune femme blonde
• Moulay Sherif as Un musicien
• Sam James as Un musicien club de jazz
• Cissé Karamoko as Un musicien club de jazz
• Hassane Fall as Un musicien club de jazz
• André Muletin as Un musicien club de jazz
• Gib Grossac as Un villageois
• Pascal Fardoulis as Un jeune voyou
• Jean-Paul Dréan as Un jeune voyou
• Paul Bisciglia as Un jeune voyou
• Viviane Méry as La mère de Bob
• Bob Ingarao as Un villageois
• Theo Bipolet as Sao Sinh, l'épicier
• Jean Balthasar as Le postier
• Alain Roulleau as Le petit garçon blanc

• Hodeir, André & Pautrot, Jean-Louis. The André Hodeir Jazz Reader. University of Michigan Press, 2006.
• Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

• Checkerboard at IMDb