La Totale!
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| La Totale ! | |
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| Directed by | Claude Zidi |
| Produced by | Jean-Louis Livi |
| Written by | Claude Zidi Simon Michaël Didier Kaminka |
| Starring | Thierry Lhermitte Miou-Miou Eddy Mitchell Michel Boujenah |
| Music by | Vladimir Cosma |
| Release date(s) | 18 December 1991 |
| Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
La Totale ! is a 1991 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi. The original film was the basis for director James Cameron's 1994 action comedy True Lies, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Arnold.
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[edit] Plot
Everyone thinks that François Voisin is a model executive with a calm and orderly life, but it is only a front. In reality, François is a secret agent, one of the best: in the game he is nicknamed l'Épée, "the Sword". But even as he infiltrates arms-smuggling rings and prevents terrorist attacks, he fails to realize that his wife is bored. One day he discovers she is having an affair...
[edit] Cast
- Thierry Lhermitte as François Voisin
- Miou-Miou as Hélène Voisin
- Eddy Mitchell as Albert "Einstein" Grelleau
- Michel Boujenah as Simon/Marcel
- Jean Benguigui as Sarkis, an arms-smuggler
- Annick Alane as Pascaline
- Claudine Wilde as Vanessa, a call girl
- François Hadji-Lazaro as Braquet, head of the secret service
- Yan Epstein as Izmir
- Sagamore Stévenin as Julien Voisin
- Jean-Guillaume Le Dantec as Paul
- Pierre Pellerin as Gérard
- Alain Stern as Philippe
- Thierry Liagre as Vincent
- Paulina Zidi as Paulina Voisin
[edit] Autour du film
- The film was remade in 1994 by James Cameron as True Lies.
- The film features Frédéric Diefenthal's debut.
