Yann can’t find a job he likes or can keep, and dreams of a better life. One day he learns that the famous travel guide Le Routard pays its employees to travel the world. Surely the perfect free holiday! Smooth-talking his way through the door, Yann manages to get himself hired for a trial research trip to Morocco, but he rapidly comes to realise that he’s seriously underestimated the job… Beguiled by Sofia, a feisty tourist guide, Yann gets swept up in an art trafficking operation led by the infamous mobster art dealer Dr Charoux and is plunged into an adventure where nothing will go as planned!
Acting
Hakim Jemili's desperate charm carries every ridiculous moment.
Production
Morocco locations look expensive; everything else looks... French.
Director
Philippe Mechelen
Hakim Jemili
Yann Tatin
Christian Clavier
Karol Kowalski
Michel Blanc
Docteur Charoux
Manon Azem
Sofia Berrada
Fred Testot
Boris
Medi Sadoun
Mounir
Aude Gogny-Goubert
Frida
Yann Papin
Regis
Alice Taglioni
Marie Nesrine Garnier
Philippe Lefebvre
Marc Aziz Garnier
Youssef Hajdi
Inspecteur Slimane
Céline Groussard
Corinne Bubard
Jérôme Pouly
Bruno Bobard
Jade Phan-Gia
Docteur Wang
Nicolas Buchoux
Directeur Palais Rahman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Le Routard is France's iconic backpacker bible — imagine Lonely Planet but with more attitude and worse maps. The film satirizes a very specific French fantasy of effortless global adventure.
Michel Blanc's Dr Charoux continues his four-decade career playing precisely this brand of seedy European menace; he's basically French cinema's designated corrupt authority figure at this point.
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