Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...
Acting
De Funès' explosive physical comedy meets Girardot's deadpan rage.
Production
House-turned-factory set design is gloriously claustrophobic chaos.
Director
Claude Zidi
Louis de Funès
Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze
Annie Girardot
Bernadette Daubray-Lacaze
Maurice Risch
L'imbécile
Jean-Jacques Moreau
Le contremaître
Geneviève Fontanel
Madame Berger
Jacques François
Le préfet
Georges Staquet
Le délégué-ouvrier
Mario David
Le camionneur
Daniel Boulanger
Le directeur du Crédit Agricole
Tanya Lopert
La première dame
Julien Guiomar
Dr. Landry
Clémentine Amouroux
La mariée qui dit "oui" à contrecœur
Henri Attal
Un ouvrier
André Badin
Un ouvrier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
De Funès was France's highest-paid actor in the 70s; this film captures his peak 'frantic bourgeois' persona that defined an era of French comedy.
The absurd pollution solution—balloons shipped 'far away'—satirically mirrors real 1970s ecological naivety; director Zidi claimed he was shocked when audiences found it plausible.
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