

Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The foursome are on holiday, camping outside a village. The Olympic flame is going to pass through the village. A grocer, charged to prepare a celebration, calls upon the four to help. One of the four falls for the grocer's daughter. However, she runs away after the sportsman carrying the flame. The foursome set of to find her and win her back.
Practical Effects
Genuine pre-CGI stunt disasters that aged like weird wine.
Costume
1972 French camping chic: objectively unforgivable fashion crimes.

Director
Claude Zidi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Les Charlots were France's answer to The Monkees — actual musicians who stumbled into slapstick stardom and made five films together.
Director Claude Zidi would later win a César for 'My New Partner' — this was his chaotic apprenticeship.