Delicatessen

Synopsis

A former clown is engaged as caretaker in a hotel. The district is populated of troglodytes, a benevolent butcher and a frog stockbreeder. On bottom of war and terrorism, the traveller will discover the love…

Delicatessen plunges the spectator in a strange, worrying and burlesque universe, near to the Cartoon. It puts in scene atypical characters, been useful by “mouths” of the French cinema (Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Dominique Pinon, Rufus, Ticky Holgado). Caro and Jeunet provide there the foundations of a dark and poetic universe which will be refined progressively of their catalog of films (the City of the lost children, Alien IV, Amélie Poulain).

Data sheet

Title: Delicatessen
Realization: Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Scenario: Gilles Adrien (+ dialogs), Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Producing: Claudie Ossard
Original music: Carlos d' Director Alessio
of the photography: Darius Khondji
Sound: Jerome Thiault
Assembly: Herve Schneid
Creation of the decorations: Marc Caro
Artistic director Jean Rabasse
Creation of the costumes: Valerie Pozzo di Borgo
Film French
Coming out date: April 17th 1991 (France)
Lasted: 99 minutes
Kind: black humor
Budget: 25 franc Million

Distribution

Pascal Benezech: the initial victim
Dominique Pinon: Louison
Marie-Laure Dougnac: Julie Valve
Jean-Claude Dreyfus: Valve (the butcher)
Karin Viard: Miss Plusse
Ticky Holgado: Marcel Tapioca
Boban Janevski: Remi Tapioca
Mikael Todde: Lucien Tapioca
Anne-Marie Pisani: Mrs Tapioca
Edith Ker: the grandmother
Rufus: Robert Kube
Jacques Mathou: Roger Kube
Chick Ortega: The factor
Jean-François Perrier: Mr Interligator
Sylvie Laguna: Mrs Interligator
Howard Vernon: Mr Potin
Dominique Zardi: The taxi driver
Marc Caro: A troglodite
Robert Baud: Voltacge

Rewards

Césars (1992):

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