The Holy year

the Holy year is a film carried out by Jean Girault in 1976

Synopsis

Max Lambert is an old gangster coriace. With the central prison of Melun, it meets Pierre Bizet who speaks to him to go to recover a nest egg of one half-milliard out of gold, buried close to a small vault in the neighborhoods of Rome. Marcel Scandini, ex-associate of max, organize their escape. Max is disguised as a bishop and Pierre as an abbot secretary. It is a question of benefitting from the holy year to slip in the middle of the pilgrims. On the aircraft for Rome, max recognizes Christina, one of its former mistresses. The Barbier police chief started alarm. But the plane is diverted on Tangier by hijackers ordered by Carla. Max negotiates with the authorities. It is taken as an hostage by the pirates. He escapes with the ransom and threatens to make jump the plane when the Barbier police chief wants to stop it. It is released to have saved the plane and to have restored the ransom. As for the nest egg, it was used to build a superb church.

Data sheet

Realization: Jean Girault
Scenario: Louis-Emile Galley, Jacques Vilfrid
Adaptation: Jean Girault, Jacques Vilfrid
Dialog: Jacques Vilfrid
Assistant realizer: Tony Aboyantz
Images: Guy Tadasu-Suzuki
Operator: Claude Bourgoin, assisted of Jean Castagnier
Sound: Paul Teases
Perchman: Marcel Corvaisier
Decorations: Sydney Bettex
Assembly: Michel and Marie-Christine Lewin
Music: Claude Bolling, Georges Bacri (Pema Music)
Photographer of plate: Joel Hatter-Pujo
Make-up: Jean-Pierre Eychenne
Costumes: D.Darrieux is equipped by Guy Laroche - J.Gabin and J.C Brialy by the Beautiful Flower stand
Script-girl: Florence Moncorgé-Gabin
Interior designer: Nady Chauviret
general Manager: Jacques Schaeffer
Film 35mm Kodak, color by process Eastmancolor
Camera Alga Cinema
Pulling: Franay laboratory, Generic L.T.C Saint-Cloud
: Eurocitel
Production: TF1 Films Productions, SNC (Paris) - Tritone Cinematografica (Rome) - (Franco-Italian)
Directing of production: Alain Darbon
Associate producer: Gerard Beytout
Secretary of production: Georgette Darbon
Administrator of production: Jacques Dromard
Distribution: Impéria Films, SNC
Poster artist: Clement hurel
First presentation the April 23rd 1976
Lasted: 95 mn
Kind: Dramatic comedy

Distribution

Jean Gabin: Max Lambert alias Monseigneur Lambrecht
Jean-Claude Brialy: Pierre Bizet says the Seminarist
Danielle Darrieux: Christina, the duchess
Henri Virlojeux: The police chief Barber
Nicoletta Macchiavelli: Carla
Luciano Bartoli : Louftingue
Paolo Guisti: Giuseppe
Gianpiero Albertini : The police chief Mazzola
Maurice Teynac: Marcel Scandini
Umberto Raho: Giordano, the consul
Renato Romano: Boricelli
Tommy Dugan : The duke
Stephan Bouy: The driver of Scandini
Dominique Briand: inspector Guellec
Philippe Valauris: inspector (not credited)
Michel Fort: Maillard
Marine Jacques: Moreau
Chantal Nobel: Airline hostess
Pauline Larrieu: Airline hostess
Billy Kearns: The pilot of the plane
Monique Tarbès: militant of the M.L.F (momentary)
Fulbert Janin: A passenger of the plane
Daniele Durou: Momentary of the plane
Maurice Work: A passenger of the plane
Philippe Brigaud: A passenger of the plane
Jenny Levels: Momentary of the plane (nun)
Yvette Dolvia: Momentary of the plane
Ibrahim Seck: A passenger of the plane
Franck David: A passenger of the plane
Jacques Dhéry: The chief warden
Philippe Dumat: The head warden
Andre Lawrence: The copilot
Yvan Tanguy: The stewart
Jean-Yves Gautier: the chief stewart
Lorenzo Piani
Ugo Francareggi
John Clark
François Florent
Yves Wecker
Florence Bellamy
Georges Birt
Courteous Jacques: A passenger of the plane (crossed with the assembly).
Corinne Lahaye : A hostess
Denyse Roland: A hostess
Nicole Desailly: Mrs. Barbier
Franck Stuart: An inspector
Marcel Gassouk: A guard with the infirmary of the prison
El Kébir: The Moroccan gendarme
Andre Dumas: voice flash Europe 1 (itself)

Around film

Last film of Jean Gabin, which will die in November 1976.

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