Four vice-presidents fight among themselves to reach the top post after the president dies. Their wives take part in the various schemes to downgrade the opposition by unorthodox means.
Acting
Ensemble chaos with Francis Blanche leading the buffoon parade.
Direction
Mocky's surgical precision in making the bourgeois look ridiculous.
Director
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Francis Blanche
Morloch
Gérard Hoffmann
Mr. Courtin
Michael Lonsdale
Charles Dufaut
Claude Mansard
Mr. Tousseur
Henri Poirier
Mr. Lainé
Roger Legris
Nicolas Grimon
Élina Labourdette
Mrs. de Saint-Aigne
Jean Galland
Monsignor of Larigaudie
Noël Roquevert
General de Castignac
Jacques Dufilho
Lambotte & his brother
Pierre Dac
General Costa
Véronique Nordey
Sara
Christian Alers
Libou
Fred Pasquali
Richard Archambault
Jean Tissier
Chauvin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mocky made this during the French New Wave boom, deliberately thumbing his nose at the movement's earnestness with pure acidic satire.
Michael Lonsdale would later play the villain in Moonraker—here he's already practicing that aristocratic menace.
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