La Course à l'échalote

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La Course à l'échalote

Directed by	Claude Zidi
Screenplay by	Claude Zidi Michel Fabre Jean-Luc Voulfow
Starring	Pierre Richard Jane Birkin Michel Aumont
Cinematography	Henri Decaë
Music by	Vladimir Cosma
Release date	8 October 1975 (1975-10-08)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

La Course à l'échalote is a 1975 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi.

Plot

Young and dynamic, founded with power from the "20th Century Bank", Pierre Vidal regularly spies with his binoculars his partner Janet, who works in a hairdressing salon. Fed up with being constantly watched, she takes advantage to excite his jealousy. His boss has taken a few days of vacation, and Pierre is in charge to replace him. More nervous than ever of this enormous responsibility, he will soon have to take to the coffer halls a certain Monsieur de Rovère, who came to bring the transfer of shares act of the Alcazar, the famous Parisian cabaret. But the famous briefcase containing the documents is stolen on their sight.

Cast

Pierre Richard ... Pierre Vidal
Jane Birkin ... Janet
Michel Aumont ... Commissaire Brunet
Marc Dolnitz ... Marc
Amadeus August ... Gunther
Henri Déus ... Mike
Luis Rego ... Frantz
Catherine Allégret ... Nicole
André Bézu ... André
Jean Martin ... bank director
Claude Dauphin ... Bertrand de Rovère
Philippe Dehesdin ... Philippe
Paul Cambo ... CEO of the bank
Jean Bouchaud ... Brunet's assistant

Additional information

The film took place in Cherbourg-Octeville, Manche, and in Brighton, England.
Claude Zidi, Pierre Richard and Jane Birkin had also starred together in Lucky Pierre, released one year before.

External links

La Course à l'échalote at IMDb

Films directed by Claude Zidi

Les Bidasses en folie (1971)
Stadium Nuts (1972)
The Big Store (1973)
Lucky Pierre (1974)
Les Bidasses s'en vont en guerre (1974)
La Course à l'échalote (1975)
The Wing or the Thigh (1976)
Animal (1977)
La Zizanie (1978)
The Under-Gifted (1980)
Inspector Blunder (1980)
Les Sous-doués en vacances (1982)
Banzaï (1983)
My New Partner (1984)
Les Rois du gag (1985)
Association of Wrongdoers (1987)
My New Partner II (1990)
La Totale! (1991)
Profil bas (1993)
Arlette (1997)
Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999)

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