| F. es un salud | |
| Director: | Marcel Gisler |
| Starring: | Frédéric Andrau Vincent Branchet |
| Music: | Rainer Lingk |
| Cinematography: | Sophie Maintigneux |
| Editing: | Bettina Böhler |
| Studio: | Vega Film |
| Distributor: | Vega Distribution |
| Runtime: | 91 minutes |
| Language: | French |
F. est un salaud (English title F. Is a Bastard or Fögi Is a Bastard, released in German as De Fögi isch en Souhund)[1] is a 1998 French/Swiss film based upon the novel ter fögi isch e souhung by Martin Frank. It was filmed in Zürich, Switzerland. The setting is the early 1970s, Zurich. The film was shown in 1999 at the Locarno Film Festival,[2] [3] the Toronto International Film Festival, and the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival.[4] [5]
Beni, age 15, becomes enamoured with the lead singer of the struggling rock band "The Minks", Fögi Müller, who is ten years older than him. Fögi ensnares him with the perceived glamor of being a musician, takes him on as the band's 'roadie', and at the same time seduces him. Beni unquestionably follows him, including following him into drug addiction. Beni's youthful innocence is destroyed in a milieu of sex, drinking, drugs, and rock-and-roll. He ends up prostituting himself to pay for Fögi's drug habit.