''Leontine'' (French: ''Faut pas prendre les enfants du bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages'') is a 1968 French
comedy
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crime film
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directed by
Michel Audiard
Paul Michel Audiard (; 15 May 1920 – 27 July 1985) was a French screenwriter and film director, known for his witty, irreverent and slang-laden dialogues which made him a prominent figure on the French cultural scene of the 1960s and 1970s. He ...
and starring
Françoise Rosay
Françoise Rosay (; born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche; 19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse,''Design'', Volume 9 1965 p. 24 and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure ...
,
Bernard Blier
Bernard Blier (11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor.
He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father, a researcher at the Pasteur Institute, was posted at the time.
Life and career
His rotund features an ...
and
Marlène Jobert
Marlène Jobert (born 4 November 1940) is a French actress and author.
Life and career
Jobert was born in Algiers, Algeria, to a Sephardic Jewish and Pied-Noir family, the daughter of Eliane Azulay and Charles Jobert, who served in the French A ...
.
[Oscherwitz & Higgins p.28]
It was shot at the
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and
on location around
Paris
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and
Menton
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Me ...
on the
French Riviera
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Jean d'Eaubonne
Jean d'Eaubonne (March 8, 1903 – July 30, 1971) was a French art director. He received an Oscar nomination in 1951 for his work on Max Ophüls's ''La Ronde''.
Selected filmography
* '' The Polish Jew'' (1931)
* '' Love and Luck'' (1932)
* '' M ...
and
Raymond Gabutti
Raymond Gabutti (1908-1985) was a French art director.Turk p.439
Selected filmography
* ''Three Waltzes'' (1938)
* '' Storm Over Asia'' (1938)
* ''Crossroads'' (1938)
* '' Children of Paradise'' (1945)
* ''The Seventh Door'' (1947)
*'' Judicial E ...
.
Synopsis
When the criminal Rita has robbed a bank with an accomplice who then refuses to share the
gold bar
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s they have taken, she calls in her aunt Leontine a respected ex-criminal now living in retirement in the South of France.
Cast
*
Françoise Rosay
Françoise Rosay (; born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche; 19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse,''Design'', Volume 9 1965 p. 24 and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure ...
as Leontine
*
Bernard Blier
Bernard Blier (11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor.
He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father, a researcher at the Pasteur Institute, was posted at the time.
Life and career
His rotund features an ...
as Charles
*
Marlène Jobert
Marlène Jobert (born 4 November 1940) is a French actress and author.
Life and career
Jobert was born in Algiers, Algeria, to a Sephardic Jewish and Pied-Noir family, the daughter of Eliane Azulay and Charles Jobert, who served in the French A ...
as Rita
*
André Pousse
André Pousse (20 October 1919 – 9 September 2005) was a noted French actor and, in his youth, also a notable cyclist.
Biography
While primarily known as a leading French actor, André Pousse began his professional career as a cyclist (prima ...
as Fred
*
Robert Berri
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Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1912 births
1989 deaths
French male film actors
Male ...
as one of Charles's men
*
Gérald Bruneau as The Viking
*
Michel Charrel
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as one of Charles's men
*
Mario David as Jacky
*
Sylvain Levignac as one of Charles's men
*
Roger Mailles as one of Charles's men
*
Raoul Saint-Yves as Raoul
*
Jean Saudray
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as one of Charles's men
*
Dominique Zardi
Dominique Zardi (born Emile Jean Cohen-Zardi; 2 March 1930 – 13 December 2009) was a French actor from Paris. He acted in more than 200 feature films, including ''Fantômas'' with Louis De Funès and Jean Marais. He died of cancer at the age of ...
as a killer
*
Paul Frankeur
Paul Frankeur (29 June 1905 - 27 October 1974) was a French actor who appeared in films by Jacques Tati (''Jour de fête'') and Luis Buñuel (''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' and ''The Phantom of Liberty''). He was sometimes credited a ...
as Ruffin
*
Robert Dalban
Robert Dalban (born Gaston Barré; 19 July 1903, in Celles-sur-Belle, Deux-Sèvres – 3 April 1987, in Paris) was a French actor. His work included stage acting, roles in TV shows and dubbing American stars. Moreover, he was a fixture in Frenc ...
as Casimir
*
Claude Rollet as Tiburce
References
Bibliography
* Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen. ''The A to Z of French Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
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1968 films
1968 comedy films
1960s crime comedy films
French crime comedy films
1960s French-language films
Films directed by Michel Audiard
Films with screenplays by Michel Audiard
Gaumont Film Company films
1960s French films
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