The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?
Acting
Pierre Richard's elastic-limbed everyman chaos is pure French comedy gold.
Direction
Zidi keeps the farce machinery oiled and running at breakneck speed.
Director
Claude Zidi
Pierre Richard
Pierre Vidal
Jane Birkin
Janet
Michel Aumont
Commissaire Brunet
Marc Doelnitz
Marc
Amadeus August
Gunther
Henri Déus
Mike
Luis Rego
Franz
Catherine Allégret
Nicole
André Bézu
André
Jean Martin
Le directeur de la banque
Claude Dauphin
De Rovère
Paul Cambo
Le P.D.G.
Henri Attal
Le contrôleur
François Cadet
Le premier brigadier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Pierre Richard's third collaboration with Claude Zidi, cementing their status as France's answer to the Pink Panther formula.
The carte-blanche plot satirized 1970s French financial scandals, making what feels like silly farce surprisingly pointed social commentary.
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