Rachid Ferrache
«Le Corniaud», «La Grande Vadrouille», «Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob», «La Folie des Grandeurs», «L'As des As», «Le Coup du Parapluie», Gérard Oury remains the undisputed master of comedy, and his films are equally popular with audiences, generation after generation. The man who created the mythical couple Bourvil-Louis de Funès, who gave Jean-Paul Belmondo and Pierre Richard emblematic films, has signed the greatest successes of French cinema. He is the director who knew how to treat the most serious subjects with humour and humanity, combining elegance and funniness. With the help of testimonials and unpublished archives, this documentary brings to life the mythical scenes of Gérard Oury's films and reveals their secrets.
Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or injury (as you would expect in his line of work) ensues after Michel promises Isabelle nothing will delay their marriage and she promises in turn that she's done flying. Once this unlikely promise is made, it becomes premise and both are forced into escalating white lies to maintain the appearance of keeping their word. Their predicament mounts as Isabelle is forced to do a few more flights, while Michel is compelled to travel to New York, Tunisia, and finally Hong Kong, where they are finally reunited in the throes of a contrived and hilarious drug deal involving a 747, water taxi chases, and martial arts.
A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
An educated woman ,with good prospects falls in love with an oceanographer .But breast cancer strikes : will she remain a true woman ,in spite of a mastectomy?
