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Le Tracassin
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Wikipedia article
'Le Tracassin ou Les Plaisirs de la ville' is a French comedy film directed by Alex Joff, released in 1961.IMDb: '[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187553/ Le tracassin ou Les plaisirs de la ville]'
Plot
The stress of urban living, his sister's new baby and problems with his desire to move in with his girlfriend, the beautiful Juliette, push Andr to take too many euphoric pills made in the laboratory where he is employed.http://www.bernard-luc.com/cinema/tracass/scenario.htm
Production
Source: IMDb
* Direction: Alex Joff, assisted by D. Mage, F. Boucher, B. Chesnais
* Screenplay and adaptation: Jean Bernard-Luc, Alex Joff
* Script: Jean Bernard-Luc
* Photography: Marc Fossard ; Paul Rodier and Serge Rapoutet (operators)
* Sound: Ren Sarazin
* Editing: Eric Pluet
* Music: Georges Van Parys (ditions Manges)
* Song: 'Puisqu'on s'aime', lyrics by (ditions Path Marconi)
* Scenery: Rino Mondellini ; Gabriel Bchir
* Make up: Janine Jarreau
* Hair: Henry Prvost
* Production: Pierre Cabaud, Ren Bzard
* Production company: Les Films Raoul Ploquin, Path Cinma
* Distribution company: Consortium Path
* 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
* Bourvil: Andr Loriot, laboratory worker
* Pierrette Bruno: Juliette, Andr's mistress
* Maria Pacme: Madame Gonzals, 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
* Franoise Deldick: A walker
* Lo Campion: Monsieur Van Hooten
* Armand Mestral: Doctor Clairac, boss of Andr 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 (rle cut in editing)
* tienne 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
* Grgoire 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.[video] [http://www.ina.fr/media/petites-phrases/video/I00012739/charles-de-gaulle-petite-phrase-le-tracassin.fr.html Discours de Charles de Gaulle] on INA.fr
Awards
* The 1961 'Prix Courteline' was awarded to Bourvil for his interpretation of the "'tracass'" (the bothered).[vido] [http://www.ina.fr/video/CAF97519251/prix-courteline-du-cinema.fr.html Prix Courteline pour Bourvil] on INA.fr
Notes and references
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