Maria Mazzocco

The Legend of the Holy Drinker

Ermanno Olmi

Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle

Andreas Kartak, a homeless man living under the bridges of Paris is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he can afford to. Kartak is determined to pay back his debt but circumstances, and his alcoholism, forever intervene.