Ni vu, ni connu
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Directed by | Yves Robert |
Written by | Alphonse Allais |
Produced by | Champs-Élysées Production (France) |
Starring | Louis de Funès |
Music by | Jean Wiener |
Distributed by | Pathé Consortium |
Release date | 23 April 1958 (France) |
Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Box office | $18.8 million[1] |
Ni vu, ni connu French: Neither seen, nor known, is a French comedy film from 1958, directed by Yves Robert, starring Louis de Funès. The film is based on the novel L'Affaire Blaireau (The Badger Case) by Alphonse Allais. The film is known under the titles: Neither Seen Nor Recognized (international English title), L'affaire Blaireau (France - alternative title), and Fisch oder Fleisch (West Germany).[2] The story had previously been adapted for the 1923 silent film The Blaireau Case and the 1932 sound film The Blaireau Case.
Plot[]
In the wine-growing village of Montpaillard, the humorless gamekeeper Parju is determined to bring in the wily poacher Blaireau. One night, he is accidentally knocked out by Armand Fléchard, a young piano teacher, but is convinced the attacker was Blaireau and has him arrested. However, Blaireau knows how to take advantage of any situation, and what he makes of being arrested benefits the entire village, including Fléchard and his girlfriend, Arabella, the daughter of the local landowner.
Cast[]
- Louis de Funès: Léon Blaireau, the poacher
- Moustache: Ovide Parju, the gamekeeper
- : Arabella de Chaville, the landowner's daughter
- Madeleine Barbulée: Mme de Chaville, Arabella's mother
- Claude Rich: Armand Fléchard, piano teacher and Arabella's beloved
- Frédéric Duvallès: Monsieur Dubenoit, the mayor
- Roland Armontel: Léon de Chaville, the local landowner, Arabella's father
- Pierre Mondy: Monsieur Bluette, director of the local jail
- : Maître Guilloche, a lawyer, the mayor's political rival
- : Auguste, a villager
- Pierre Stéphen: the public prosecutor
- Robert Vattier: Monsieur Lerechigneux, the judge
- Paul Faivre: Victor, the chief jailkeeper
- : a prisoner, formerly a pedicurist
- : Grégory, a prisoner
- : prisoner
- : prisoner
- Monette Dinay: Léontine, Dubenoit's housekeeper
- Danièle Delorme: admirer at the village fair
- : Mademoiselle Rose
- : the owner of the local hotel
- : assistant to the mayor
- : policeman
- : a legal assessor
- Yves Robert: wedding photographer
- Marc Blanchard: Monsieur Duranfort
- : prisoner
- : policeman
- : whistling prisoner
- : doctor
- : Antoine, a prisoner, formerly a tailor
- Jeanne de Funès (uncredited): admirer
- Also: Fout-le-camp, a dog; Napoléon, a crow; Lucienne, a magpie; Parju, a pig; and the members of the "club de la fine gaule".
References[]
- ^ "Ni vu... ni connu (1958) - JPBox-Office". www.jpbox-office.com. Retrieved Mar 26, 2020.
- ^ Ni vu, ni connu at IMDb
External links[]
- Ni vu, ni connu (1958) at the Films de France
- French-language films
- 1958 films
- 1958 comedy films
- French comedy films
- French black-and-white films
- Films directed by Yves Robert
- French films
- Films about hunters
- French film remakes
- Films based on French novels
- Pathé films
- 1950s French film stubs