Poisson of April (film, 1954)

Synopsis

Honest mechanic of garage, faithful husband and good father of family, Emile Dupuy lets himself convince by the glibness of a salesman of bazaar which makes him buy a sophisticated model of Fishing cane with the money intended for the washing machine of which Charlotte his wife dreams. Not daring to acknowledge to him, it will lie and, of small wholesale lies lies, is found in an inextricable situation.

Data sheet

Realization: Gilles Grangier
Scenario: Gerard Carlier
Adaptation: Gilles Grangier, Michel Audiard
Dialog: Michel Audiard
Assistants realizer: Maxime Roger, Jacques Deray
Operator: Marc Fossard
Cameraman: Roger Duculot, assisted of Rene Schneider and Clovis Terr
Music: Etienne Lorin
Song: Aragon and Castille of Bobby Lapointe
Decorations: Jacques Dovecote, assisted of Rene Guisgaud and Alfred Marpeau
Sound: Jean Rieul, assisted of Jean-Claude Marchetti
Boom operator: Marcel Corvaisier
Assembly: Jacques Thiedot, assisted of Paulette Fontenel
Lasted: 102mn
Make-up: Marcel Bordenave
Hairstyles: Gisele Jacquin-Mourguet
Photographer of plate: Robert Joffre
Script girl: Martine Guillou
Accessories supplier: Louis Bosom, Roger Ronsi
Tapestry maker: Georges Thiebault
Manager: Paul Laffargue
Manager interior designer: Jean Chaplain
Production: Victory, Intermondia Films
Chief of production: Jean-Paul Guibert
Distribution: Directing Victory Films
of production: Jean Desmonceaux
Secretary of production: Marcelle Laquerrier
Turning from February 26th to April 24th, 1954 with the studios of Boulogne
Kind: Comedy
First presentation on July 28th, 1954

Distribution

Andre Bourvil: Emile Dupuy, mechanic car
Louis de Funès: The guard fishes
Annie Cordy: Charlotte, the woman of Emile
Denise Grey: Clementine Prévost, the woman of Gaston
Jacqueline Noëlle: Annette Coindet, the cousin
Pierre Dux: Gaston Prévost, the lover of Annette
Louis Bugette: The owner of the garage
Maurice Biraud: The salesman of articles of fishing
Gerard Sabatier: Small Jacky Dupuy
Paul Faivre: Louis, the bar, known as: Pépère
Charles Lemontier: Mr. Gauthier
Zeimmet: Germain, the servant of the " Prévost"
Rene Havard: The automobile inspector
Jean Hebey: Mr. Dutreille, a customer of the garage
Charles Denner: A consumer with the coffee
Gerard Darrieu: The deliveryman of washing machine
Suzanne Grey: A neighbor
Emile Riandreys: A consumer with the coffee
Edouard Francomme: A consumer with the coffee
Guy Loriquet: Leon, the apprentice mechanic
Christian Brocard: A customer with the store
Anne Auger:

Around film

First cinematographic meeting between Bourvil and Louis de Funès: they will form later the comic Duo most famous of the French cinema.

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