Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
The film is a 20th-century adaptation of Voltaire's 1759 social satire novel Candide, ou l’Optimisme.
Norbert Carbonnaux
Director
Casts & Crew
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Candide
Daliah Lavi
Cunégonde
Pierre Brasseur
Pangloss
Louis de Funès
Gestapo Officer
Michel Simon
Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
Jean Poiret
Le premier policier / Policeman
Michel Serrault
Le second policier / Policeman
Jean Tissier
Le docteur Jacques
Luis Mariano
Un dictateur sud américain / South American Dictator
Nadia Gray
La dame de compagnie / Dame
Mathilde Casadesus
La baronne de Thunder-Ten-Tronck
Darío Moreno
Un dictateur sud américain / South American Dictator
Jacqueline Maillan
Mrs. Jim, la mère puritaine
Jacques Balutin
L'ordonnance
Maurice Biraud
Le résident hollandais (uncredited)
Pierre Repp
Le pasteur (uncredited)
Jean Richard
Le trafiquant du marché noir / Black Marketeer
Albert Simonin
Le major Simpson / Major Simpson
Robert Manuel
German Officer
Jean Constantin
Fourak
Michèle Verez
Pâquette
Harold Kay
German Officer
O'Dett
Le baron de Thunder-Ten-Tronck
John William
Le chef des Oreillons
Don Ziegler
Le papa gangster / American Father
François Chalais
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Mireille Alcon
Une dame du harem (uncredited)
Sybil Saulnier
Une dame du harem (uncredited)
Danièle Tessier
Une dame du harem (uncredited)
Habib Benglia
Le noir molesté (uncredited)
Michel Garland
Le frère de Cunégonde (uncredited)
Gib Grossac
Le chef des eunuques (uncredited)
Alice Sapritch
La soeur du baron (uncredited)
Edy Sylvian
Petit rôle (uncredited)
Michel Thomass
Le chauffeur russe de Pangloss (uncredited)
Also Directed by Norbert Carbonnaux
Mathieu is a mild-mannered man engaged to a woman whose father is involved in running a house of prostitution. When the father dies, Mathieu inherits the bordello and is unprepared for his new position. He overcomes his shyness and becomes a sexual dynamo when his workers feed him some powerful amphetamines.
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