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The Little Bather

1968 • 1h36m Comedy

Rating

6.6/10

Popularity

1

Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...

Details

Director

Robert Dhéry

Screenplay

Claude Clément

Robert Dhéry

Pierre Tchernia

Cast

Louis de Funès

Andréa Parisy

Franco Fabrizi

Release date

3/22/1968

Status

Released

Origin country

FR

Vote count

388