Le Tracassin
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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 patroness
- 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
- ^ a b c IMDb: Le tracassin ou Les plaisirs de la ville
- ^ [1]
- ^ [video] Discours de Charles de Gaulle on INA.fr
- ^ [vidéo] Prix Courteline pour Bourvil on INA.fr
External links
- Le Tracassin at IMDb
- Synopsis and photos on bernard-luc.com