Michel Bernanos

His great cycle of initiation,[clarification needed] inspired by two trips to Brazil between 1938 and 1948, centers around the novel The Other Side of the Mountain (1967).

The film was written and directed by Robert Bresson, who adapted his father's novels Diary of a Country Priest and Mouchette.

Written in 1963 in Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, Court,[clarification needed] it is divided into two distinct parts.

A boy of 18 boards a vessel, where he is first bullied by the other crew members and then taken under the wing of the cook Toine.

The vessel is eventually engulfed by a storm, leaving the protagonist and his friend Toine alone and adrift on the sea.