friend Patrick Dewaere committed suicide with the rifle presented to him by Coluche. Gnawed by remorse and heartache, undermined by debt, Coluche plunged into drugs. This bad patch was going to deepen his portrayal of the character. The role of young Bensoussan, a small dealer who befriends Lambert, was entrusted to Richard Anconina, then little known to the general public. The role of Lola, a young punk who fell in love with Bensoussan and then Lambert, was given to Agnès Soral, who had filmed under the direction of Berri in A Moment of Distraction. The police officer in charge of the investigation is portrayed by Philippe Léotard. Filming Shooting began on at Paris with the sets provided by Alexandre Trauner. The gas station, which has disappeared since (illuminated with neon, which was suggested by the chief operator Bruno Nuytten), was located rue Pajol, a stone's throw from the La Chapelle metro station The film was also shot in Belleville. Shot at night in a deliberately gloomy atmosphere, the making of the film was complicated by Coluche whose condition sometimes forces it to be filmed from behind. In addition, the actor did not take off his gas station attendant jacket outside of the shoot. Soral, to blend in with her role, lived the life of a punk and lost weight. The actress, in an interview with Figaro more than thirty years after the film's release, said that she became friendly with Coluche. According to Soral, who was not aware of Coluche's discomfort during the filming, the actors were in pain: besides Coluche, Anconina was coming out of a love affair, just like Léotard, who had just separated from Nathalie Baye, but also Berri who was going through a complicated sentimental episode. The slap that Coluche gives to Richard Anconina was very real, the latter said in an interview to Europe1. At first, however, Coluche had not dared to hit him hard enough and the latter then asked him to give him a real slap. The punk concert sequence takes place at the "Gibus" (then called "Le Petit Gibus", described in the film as "a bar of punks at République”), a tiny Parisian concert hall known at the time to be the CBGB's Parisian. The group that stars in the movie are a famous punk band from the 1980s, "The Horde", and their singer Gogol Premier. The shots in the infamous districts