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  [fr] (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[]

External links[]

• Le Tracassin at IMDb
• Synopsis and photos on bernard-luc.com