The Wounded Man (film)

The Wounded Man
Directed byPatrice Chéreau
Written byPatrice Chéreau
Hervé Guibert
Produced byClaude Berri
Marie-Laure Reyre
Ariel Zeitoun
StarringJean-Hugues Anglade
Vittorio Mezzogiorno
CinematographyRenato Berta
Edited byDenise de Casabianca
Music byFiorenzo Carpi
Distributed byGaumont Distribution
Release date
  • 25 May 1983 (1983-05-25)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$2.3 million

The Wounded Man (French: L'Homme blessé) is a 1983 gay-themed French drama film directed by Patrice Chéreau, and written by him and Hervé Guibert. It stars Jean-Hugues Anglade and Vittorio Mezzogiorno. It won the César Award for Best Original Screenplay, and was entered in the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.

The film was initially inspired by Jean Genet's autobiographical novel The Thief's Journal, but kept only the basic idea of a gay relationship with an age gap.