Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His father owns a profitable fur shop. Initially, Claude's father hopes his son will take over the fur shop, but he later gives in to Claude's desire to become involved in filmmaking.
Acting
Yves Robert's Henri: equal parts tyrant and teddy bear.
Writing
Berri weaponizes specific childhood humiliations with affectionate rage.
Production
The fur shop set feels lived-in, inherited, slightly suffocating.
Director
Claude Berri
Yves Robert
Henri Roger Langmann
Claude Berri
Claude Langmann adulte
Alain Cohen
Claude Langmann enfant
Hénia Suchar
Betty Langmann
Gérard Barray
Richard
Teddy Bilis
Salomon
Philippe de Broca
Jean Timent
Sabine Haudepin
Mädchen
Prudence Harrington
Sarah, une femme mariée, la répétitrice en anglais d'un film "américain", dont Claude tombe amoureux
Francis Lemarque
Lazarus, un ami fourreur du père
François Billetdoux
L'auteur de théâtre
Grégoire Aslan
Un producteur de cinéma
Jacques Ramade
Le clapman
Arlette Gilbert
Simone
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Berri's 'Langmann trilogy' exploring Ashkenazi Jewish life in 1940s-50s Paris, rarely exported to American audiences.
Alain Cohen, who plays young Claude, had starred in 'The Two of Us' (1967)—Berri essentially borrowed his own childhood face from another director's film.
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