Under the sign of the bull

Under the sign of the Bull is a film carried out by Gilles Grangier in 1968

Synopsis

Engineer Albert Raynal devotes his life to research. He has just developed a rocket. The departure succeeds, but alas the rocket explodes in vol. This failure resounding will attract the greatest financial problems to him and family. His/her brother-in-law, Jerome Laprade, entrust to Christine, the wife of the industrialist, that it has of it enough imaginations of her husband. He even suggests to him divorcing to preserve, especially his two already large sons, a strong financial future compromised by extravagances of their father. But Albert Raynal, force of nature, are not estimated not overcome for as much. Although it costs him much of it, it tries near friends and of relations of the steps in order to join together the essential capital to save its laboratory and to continue its work. But all remain insensitive to its call. Even the beautiful Rolande, rich restorer, who had for Raynal leaning some before a few years, refuses to mortgage her restaurant. After a running away in Normandy, it reappears and wants to be constituted captive for a resounding bankruptcy. But Christine, by a moving reversal, gives up her divorce petition and will save her husband while allowing him to continue her work.

Data sheet

Realization: Gilles Grangier
Scenario: According to the novel of Roger Vrigny " End of journée"
Adaptation: François Boyer, Gilles Grangier, Michel Audiard
Dialog: Michel Audiard
Assistant realizer: Francis Pernet
Images: Walter Wottitz
Operator: Adolphe Charlet, assisted of Bob Patter
Sound: Pierre Calvet, assisted of Daniel Brisseau and Jean Gaudelet
Decorations: Robert Clavel, assisted of Marc Desage and Michel de Broin
Assembly: Jacqueline Douarinou-Sadoul, assisted of Michele Masnier and Orphée Douarinou
Music: Jean Prodomidès
general Manager: Armand Tabureau
Script girl: Dawn Pasquiss
Photographer of plate: Marcel Pares
Maquillage: Irene Servet, Yvonne Gasperina
Interior designer: Eric Simon
Furs of Chombert
Film 35mm, Eastmancolor, sound System Westrex
Pulling: Laboratory C.T.C
Turning in the studios " Franstudio" of Saint-Maurice and outsides with the airport of Paris Orly, the castle of the Rosny-on-Seine, the air base of Rheims
Production: International Gaumont
Directing of production: Roger de Broin, Robert Sussfeld
Associate producer: Alain Poiré
Distribution: gaumont
Administrator of production: Guy Azzi
First presentation on March 28th, 1969
Lasted: 81mn

Distribution

Jean Gabin: Albert Raynal
Suzanne Flon: Christine Raynal
Colette Deréal: Rolande
Raymond Gérôme: Jerome Laprade
Michel Auclair: Mr. Magnin
Alfred Adam: Mr. Vacher
Jacques Monod: Mr. Marchal
France Valéry: Gilberte Magnin
Marthe Alycia: Mrs. Laprade mother
Etienne Bierry: Mr. Lambert,
Louis Arbessier: Robert Augagneur
Fernand Ledoux: judge
max Amyl: police chief in Rouen
Yves Arcanel: head mechanic
Andre Badin: a cook (crossed with the assembly)
Jean Berton: accountant
Rene Bouloc: Jean-Pierre Raynal
Robert Dalban: café owner
Monita Derrieux: typist
max Favalelli: itself (not credited)
Jacqueline Fountain: Louise
Jean-Pierre Herce: wire junior Raynal
Sophie Leclair: Janine
Armand Meffre: engineer
Albert Michel: bar scrap merchant
Jean-Paul Moulinot: Pierre
Jean Simon Prévost: financier
Yvon Sarray: engineer (not credited)
Jean Tielment: Master-of hotel
Jean Valmence: Helmann
Philippe Valauris: secretary of Marchal
Dominique Viriot: English hitch-hiker.
Charles Bayard: a customer of the restaurant
Lucien Desagneaux: a passenger in Orly
Jean Gold: a customer of the restaurant
Bob Ingarao: a workman
Guy Marly: assembler ORTF
Raymond Pierson: barman of the " Trianon Palace"
Jacques Préboist: contractual
Emile Riandreys: a motorist
Franck Stuart: restoring waiter of Rolande

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