Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Matti Pellonpää
Rodolfo
Evelyne Didi
Mimi
André Wilms
Marcel
Kari Väänänen
Schaunard
Christine Murillo
Musette
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Blancheron
Carlos Salgado
Waiter
Alexis Nitzer
Henri Bernard
Sylvie Van Den Elsen
Mrs. Bernard
Gilles Charmant
Hugo / Rock Group
Dominique Marcas
Shop Owner
Samuel Fuller
Gassot
Jean-Paul Wenzel
Francis
Louis Malle
Gentleman
André Penvern
Police Inspector
Maximilien Regiani
Doctor
Daniel Dublet
Philippe Dormoy
Police Officer
Louis Delamotte
Restaurant Owner
Kenneth Colley
Street Sweeper
Aki Kaurismäki
Director
Klaus Heydemann
Executive Producer
Producer
Paula Oinonen
Francis Boespflug
Screenplay