''Adrien'' is a French comedy film, released in 1943.Colin Crisp, ''The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960''.

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, the film stars Fernandel as Adrien Moulinet, a modest and unassuming bank clerk who invents a motorized

rollerskate Roller skates, are shoes or bindings that fit onto shoes that are worn to enable the wearer to roll along on wheels. The first roller skate was an inline skate design, effectively an ice skate with wheels replacing the blade. Later the "quad ska ...

but needs the help of advertising agent Jules Petipas (

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) to help market it. The film's cast also includes

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, Huguette Vivier, Dorette Ardenne,

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, Jane Marken,

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and

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Synopsis

Adrien Moulinet, a collector at Nortier Bank, is the inventor of a motorized rollerskate, which he wants to market. He meets Jules, an unemployed journalist, who is going to help him with this, but, after being attacked and wounded by gangsters, Adrian is sent by his boss to recover in a spa. There, he incidentally meets the two daughters of the banker, - as well as the mistress of the husband of one of the two girls, - and soon, a sentimental and dramatic imbroglio begins to grow around the poor employee.

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* 1943 films French comedy films Films with screenplays by Jean Aurenche 1943 comedy films French black-and-white films 1940s French-language films Continental Films films 1940s French films {{1940s-France-film-stub