How to Do Well When You're a Jerk and a Crybaby
Comment réussir quand on est con et pleurnichard | |
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Directed by | Michel Audiard |
Written by | Michel Audiard Jean-Marie Poiré |
Produced by | Pierre Braunberger Alain Poiré |
Starring | Jean Carmet Jean-Pierre Marielle Stéphane Audran Jane Birkin Evelyne Buyle Jean Rochefort Daniel Prévost Jeanne Herviale Ginette Garcin Jean-Claude Dreyfus |
Cinematography | |
Edited by | |
Music by | Eddie Vartan |
Release date | 19 June 1974 (France) |
Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Box office | $5.9 million[1] |
Comment réussir quand on est con et pleurnichard (English title: How to Do Well When You're a Jerk and a Crybaby) is a French comedy film directed by Michel Audiard, released in 1974.[2] It is notable as the first film with the actor Jean-Claude Dreyfus. Audiard appears in the film as a nurse.[3]
Synopsis[]
Antoine (Jean Carmet) is a crybaby. This is an asset in his trade (sales representative for drinks) and for seducing women. Thus he becomes, through a rich nymphomaniac, director of a luxury hotel.[3]
Technical data[]
- Director : Michel Audiard
- Screenplay : Michel Audiard and Jean-Marie Poiré
- Duration : 90 minutes
- Release date : 19 June 1974
- Language: French
Cast[]
- Jean Carmet : Antoine Robineau
- Jean-Pierre Marielle : Gérard Malempin
- Stéphane Audran : Cécile Malempin
- Jane Birkin : Jane
- Evelyne Buyle : Marie-Josée Mulot
- Jean Rochefort : Foisnard
- Daniel Prévost : Carducci
- Jeanne Herviale : Robineau's mother
- Robert Dalban : Léonce
- Jacqueline Doyen : Madame Léonce
- Jean-Claude Dreyfus : The transformist
- Ginette Garcin : The head nurse
- : The surly nurse
- Michel Audiard : The male nurse
- Laurence Badie : The hotel attendant
- Paul Bisciglia : The hunter
- Féodor Atkine : The mime
- Manu Pluton : The black
- : Marcel
- Hélène Laporte
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Categories:
- French-language films
- French films
- French comedy films
- 1970s French-language films
- 1974 films
- 1974 comedy films
- Films with screenplays by Michel Audiard
- 1970s French film stubs
- 1970s comedy film stubs