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Head Against the Wall
Directed by
Georges Franju
1959
1h 35m
[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
7.0
100%
69%
6.8
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An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
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Cast of Head Against the Wall
Jean-Pierre Mocky
François Gérane / Adaptation
Pierre Brasseur
Dr. Varmont
Paul Meurisse
Dr. Emery
Charles Aznavour
Heurtevent
Anouk Aimée
Stéphanie
Jean Galland
Maître Gérane
Jean Ozenne
Count Elzéar de Chambrelle
Thomy Bourdelle
Colonel Donnadieu
Rudy Lenoir
The hidden man
Roger Legris
Decauville, the driver
Henri San Juan
The pool owner
Édith Scob
The singing mad
Max Montavon
Internee in the refectory
René Alié
Luc Andrieux
Nurse
Doudou Babet
The black man
Claude Badolle
Claude Castaing
Jean Henry
Pierre Koplitchev
Head Against the Wall Ratings & Reviews
Slant Magazine
Budd Wilkins
Georges Franju's feature-length directorial debut, La Tête Contre Les Murs, is a study in social alienation and institutional indifference that shares a resemblance with the filmmaker's pioneering 1949 short "Blood of the Beasts."
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Harrowing look at a psychiatric hospital and how it fails those who are treatable.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
An expos out of Kafka and Foucault
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