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 ; and (operators)
- Sound:
- Editing:
- Music: Georges Van Parys (éditions Manèges)
- Song: Puisqu'on s'aime, lyrics by (éditions Pathé Marconi)
- Scenery: Rino Mondellini ; Gabriel Béchir
- Make up:
- Hair:
- Production: ,
- 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
- : 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
- : Music teacher
- Dominique Davray: Loriot's concierge
- : A walker
- Léo Campion: Monsieur Van Hooten
- Armand Mestral: Doctor Clairac, boss of André and Juliette
- : A policeman
- Harry-Max: Monsieur Crollebois, the locksmith
- : The hairdresser
- : Sports coach
- : The client at table 8
- : Another policeman
- : 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
- : The laboratory receptionist
- Alice Sapritch: A woman in the queue at the bank
- : A shop assistant at Babylis
- : The Englishwoman in labour
- : A nurse at the clinic
- : The florist
- : A man at the bank, in the restaurant, in the lift...
- Albert Michel: A man at the clinic
- : Another 2CV owner
- Christian Marin: A cashier at the bank
- : The man stained at the restaurant
- : The man in the phone booth
- : The postman
- : A man in the queue at the bank
- : Auguste, the restaurant chef
- : A man on a bicycle
- : Bus conductor
- : The gendarme who speaks
- : The employer at the jewellers
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
Categories:
- French films
- 1961 films
- French black-and-white films