An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love movie.
Acting
Pierre Richard's physical comedy and panic energy
Writing
Script's clever escalation of mistaken identities
Production
Glamorous 1976 aesthetic masking seedy premise
Director
Georges Lautner
Pierre Richard
François Perrin
Miou-Miou
Christine Lefèbvre
Jean-Pierre Marielle
Bob Morlock
Renée Saint-Cyr
Mrs. Ferroni
Gérard Jugnot
Ploumenech
Sabine Azéma
Miss Claude Ferroni
Henri Guybet
Henri Mercier
Gérard Chambre
Aldo
Arlette Emmery
Marie-France, secretary
Valérie Mairesse
Pierrette
Jean Michaud
Mr. Ferroni
Maitena Galli
Mona Duroc
Michel Blanc
Friend from the café-theater
Francis Lax
Unlucky motorist
Jean Luisi
Jules Sliman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gérard Jugnot appears here early in his career before becoming one of France's most beloved comedic actors. The film's French title 'Le Jour de gloire' ironically references glory days that never arrive.
Released during France's post-1968 sexual liberation era, the film satirizes both porn's mainstreaming AND bourgeois hypocrisy about it—though modern viewers may find its gender politics less progressive than intended.
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