"Every gun has many stories to tell", writes Robin, the character that Kramer plays. Tony, a foreign reporter with a political past who has lived in France for some time, tries to unveil the mysteries behind an obscure traffic in arms that the government probably has its hands in. A cargo disappears in Marseilles. An arms dealer is assassinated, but Tony does not manage to get to the bottom of the investigation, which by now he experiences as a personal obsession. But the "politicalpolice" story line intersects with the parallel line o the "private" stories - Tonys girlfriend Lil, a swimming teacher whom he has left in Paris; Robin, an American artist who works illegally driving a truck; Margot, an actress who he visits at Marseilles where she is ministering to her mother's last agonies and Katrin, a friend who is fleeing from an unknown country where she was tortured and who is staying at Tony and Lil's house. The stories crisscross, clash, and overlap, drifting and washing away, moving in a way that any certainty seems to fade away.
Biography
film director

Robert Kramer
Robert Kramer was born in New York in 1940. He studied philosophy and Western European History at Swarthmore College and Stanford University. He has written two unpublished novels, numerous poems, plays and short stories. In 1965 he organized the Newark Community Project (N-CUP) in an African-American community. He worked as a reporter in Latin America for various American publications. He worked with Peter Gessner on a film on the guerrilla movement in Venezuela. In 1966 he created Alpha 60 with Norman Fruchter, Robert Machover, Peter Gessner, and Mike Robinson. It was a sort of free cooperative of director-producers who later were channelled into the Newsreel movement, which Kramer helped found and organize. Kramer's Newsreel experience lasted from 1967 to 1971, during which about sixty short- and middle-length films were produced - documentaries, films of struggle, and agitation films. In the early 1980's he moved to Europe, and he currently is living and working in Paris.
FILMOGRAFIA
Regista/Director: Faln [Faln, 1965, In the Country [In campagna, 1966], The Edge [Il margine, 1967], Ice (id., 1969), People's War [La guerra del popolo, 19691, Milestones [Pietre miliari, 1975], Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal (Scene di lotta di classe dal Portogallo, 1979), Guns (Fucili, 1980), Un grand jour (en France) - Naissance [A Great Day (in France) - Birth / Un gran giorno (in Francia) - Nascita, 1981], A toute allure [As fast as you can / A tutta velocità, 1982], La peur [The fear / La paura, 1983], Sarkis al Woodrow Wilson - Musée d'Art Moderne [Sarkis at Woodrow Wilson - Museum of Modern Art / Sarkis at Woodrow Wilson - Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1984], Notre nazi / Unser Nazi [Our Nazi / Il nostro nazista, 1984], Diesel [Diesel, 1985], Un plan d'enfer [A Plan of Hell / Un piano infernale, 1986], X-Country [X-Country, 1987, inedito], Doc's Kingdom [Il regno di Doc, 1987], Route One / USA [Route One / USA, 1989], Dear Doc [Caro Doc, 1989, inedito], Maquette (brouillon de film) [Scale model (Draft of a Film) / Modello (Abbozzo di film) , 1990, inedito, incompiuto], Berlin 10/90 [Berlin 10/90, 1990-91], Sous le vent [Leeward / Sottovento, 1991], Series of Videoletters: Steve Dwoskin / Robert Kramer [Serie di videolettere: Steve Dwoskin / Robert Kramer, 1991, inedito], Ecrire contre l'oubli: pour Fidel Intrusca Fernández, Pérou [Writing against forgetting: for Fidel Intrusca Fernández, Peru / Scrivere contro l'oblio: per Fidel Intrusca Fernández, Perù, 1991], Point de départ / Starting Place (Starting Place / t.l. Punto di partenza, 1993), La Roue: Greg Lemond - Andrew Hampsten [The Wheel: Greg Lemond - Andrew Hampsten / La ruota: Greg Lemond - Andrew Hampsten, 1993], Walk the Walk [Walk the Walk, 1996], Le Manteau / Der Mantel [The Mantle / Il manto, 1996], Ghosts of Electricity [Fantasmi dell'elettricità, 1997].
Attore, sceneggiatore / Actor, screenwriter: Gestos e fragmentos (Gestures and Fragments / Gesti e frammenti, 1980-82) di Alberto Seixas Santos, Der Stand der Dinge (The State of Things, Lo stato delle cose, 1981) di Wim Wenders.
Cast
& Credits
Director of photography: Richard Copans, Eric Pittard, Claude Michaud, Louis Bihi.
Editor: Valeria Sarmiento, Claudio Martinez, Yann Dedet, Monique Soussan.
Music: Barre Phillips.
Sound: Dominique Vieillard, Olivier Schwob, Jean Umansky.
Cast and characters: Patrick Bauchau (Tony), Juliet Berto (Margot), Peggy Franckston (Lil), Hermine Karagheuz (Katrin), Béatrice Lord (Marie), Keja Kramer (Rose), Robert Kramer (Robin).
Production company: Hélène Vager per Quasar Films.