Le Tracassin
Le Tracassin ou Les Plaisirs de la ville is a French film directed by Alex Joffé, released in 1961.[1]
Plot
The stress of urban living, a new baby and problems with his desire to move in with the beautiful Juliette push André to take too many euphoric pills made in the laboratory where he is employed.[2]
Production
Source: IMDb[1]
- Direction : Alex Joffé, assisted by D. Mage, F. Boucher, B. Chesnais
- Screenplay and adaptation: Jean-Bernard Luc, Alex Joffé
- Script : Jean-Bernard Luc
- Photography : Marc Fossard ; Paul Rodier and Serge Rapoutet (operators)
- Sound : René Sarazin
- Editing : Eric Pluet
- Music : Georges Van Parys (éditions Manèges)
- Song : Puisqu'on s'aime, lyrics by Bernard Dimey (éditions Pathé Marconi)
- Scenery : Rino Mondellini ; Gabriel Béchir
- Make up : Janine Jarreau
- Hair : Henry Prévost
- Production : Pierre Cabaud, René Bézard
- Production company : Les Films Raoul Ploquin, Pathé Cinéma
- Distribution company: Consortium Pathé
- Format : Black and white - 35 mm - 1,37:1 - Monoaural sound (recorded by Poste Parisien)
- Principal photography : Studios « Franstudio »
- Prints : Laboratoire G.T.C de Joinville
- Genre : Comedy
- Length : 103 minutes
- Premier : 20 December 1961
Cast
Source: IMDb[1]
- Bourvil : André Loriot, laboratory worker
- Pierrette Bruno : Juliette, André's mistress
- Maria Pacôme : Madame Gonzalès, the doctor's mistress
- Rosy Varte : restaurant patronness
- Micheline Luccioni : Jeannette, waitress on the restaurant
- Mireille Perrey : The boss of the Babylis shop
- Yvonne Clech : Music teacher
- Dominique Davray : Loriot's concierge
- Françoise Deldick : A walker
- Léo Campion : Monsieur Van Hooten
- Armand Mestral : Doctor Clairac, boss of André and Juliette
- Jean-Paul Coquelin : A policeman
- Harry-Max : Monsieur Crollebois, the locksmith
- Charpini : The hairdresser
- Mario David : Sports coach
- Teddy Bilis : The client at table 8
- Lucien Guervil : Another policeman
- Jean-Marie Proslier : The neighbour (rôle cut in editing)
- Étienne Bierry : The policeman in front of the foreign embassy
- Maurice Garrel : A traffic policeman
- Pierre Repp : The strawberry lover at the restaurant
- Antoinette Moya : The laboratory receptionist
- Alice Sapritch : A woman in the queue at the bank
- Jacqueline Jefford : A shop assistant at Babylis
- Diane Wilkinson : The Englishwoman in labour
- Nicole Chollet : A nurse at the clinic
- Monique Messine : The florist
- Jean-Pierre Rambal : A man at the bank, in the restaurant, in the lift...
- Albert Michel : A man at the clinic
- Grégoire Gromoff : Another 2CV owner
- Christian Marin : A cashier at the bank
- Max Desrau : The man stained at the restaurant
- Paul Mercey : The man in the phone booth
- Fulbert Janin : The postman
- Gaston Ouvrard : A man in the queue at the bank
- Jean Rupert : Auguste, the restaurant chef
- Jimmy Perrys : A man on a bicycle
- Francis Lax : Bus conductor
- Henri Poirier : The gendarme who speaks
- Tony Villemin : The employer at the jewellers
- Chantal Deberg
- Lucie Arnold
- Solange Certain
- Pierre Mirat
About the film
- The rarely used word "tracassin", was reactivated by Charles de Gaulle in a speech on 2 October 1961.[3]
Awards
- Le Prix Courteline de l'humour cinématographique 1961 was awarded to Bourvil for his interpretation of "tracassé".[4]
Notes and references
- 1 2 3 IMDb: Le tracassin ou Les plaisirs de la ville
- ↑
- ↑ [video] Discours de Charles de Gaulle on INA.fr
- ↑ [vidéo] Prix Courteline pour Bourvil on INA.fr
External links
- Le Tracassin at the Internet Movie Database
- Synopsis and photos on bernard-luc.com
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