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So Long, Stooge (French title: Tchao Pantin) is a 1983 film directed by Claude Berri. It is based on a novel by Alain Page. Coluche, the lead, won the César Award for Best Actor. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Lambert, a withdrawn middle aged man, works the night shift at a Parisian petrol station. He has no friends, no family; his only companion is his bottle of rum. One night, a young Arab man, Bensoussan, enters his shop — and his life. This stranger has also no family, lives alone in a dingy room, and scrapes together a living as a drug dealer. The two solitary men develop a friendship — but this is brutally brought to an end when Bensoussan is killed in front of Lambert. Lambert soon realises that his new friend was murdered by his drug dealing associates and sets out to avenge his death — assisted by Lola, a punk girl who knew Bensoussan briefly. By doing this, Lambert manages to come to terms with his own tragic past.

In 1982, during a train trip, producer Christian Spillmaecker read several novels, including Tchao Pantin by Alain Page, recently published. Spillmaecker was thrilled by the story of Lambert, a depressed former cop turned pump attendant, determined to find the murderers of a small dealer whom he identifies with his son. 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. Soral, to blend in with her role, lived the life of a punk and lost weight. 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 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 of the north of Paris went not without a hitch, due to the embarrassment that the film crew caused for petty trafficking, but arrangements were finally made. The following week, the film still remained in third place, having been seen by 851,188 admissions since its release, including 417,690 admissions during this period. The week of January 4, 1984, Tchao Pantin climbed to second place behind Rue Barbare, which had just been released, with 383,850 entries, allowing the film to record a total of 1,235,038 entries. The feature film reached 2 million admissions at the start of February 1984. While it was a modest success in cinemas throughout the month of February, Tchao Pantin climbed back to 9th place following his triumph at the Césars in March 1984, which allowed it to get closer to the 2,400,000 entries. The following week it moved up to third place at the box office with 224,565 entries, bringing the total to 2,600,970 entries. The film passed the 3 million admissions mark the week of , before leaving the top 30 at the end of April 1984. The film benefited from a theatrical revival in the summer of 1986, following the death of Coluche, which allowed it to return to the weekly top 30 to pass the 3.5 million admissions mark per week. of , only a few days after the death of the actor. Beginning August 1986, the film was still in the top 30 and reached 3.7 million admissions. In the end, it met with commercial success with 3,829,139 admissions, including 856,133 admissions in Paris, ranking 8th for films with the most admissions in the year of its release.