Un fil à la patte

Un fil à la patte

2005•3h 13m•8.3/10

Comedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

8.3/10(2)

Bois d'Enghien, engaged to a young girl from a good family, has to break up with Lucette Gautier, his mistress, a dilettante of salons. Not having been able to tell her of his break-up, he finds her at her fiancée's house, invited for the event. A Mexican general, jealous of his rivals, arrives and complicates the situation, as does a notary clerk, Bouzin, a singer in his spare time.

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Production

Olivier Productions

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Patrice Laffont

Patrice Laffont

General Irrigua

Marie-Ange Nardi

Marie-Ange Nardi

Lucette Gautier

Thierry Beccaro

Thierry Beccaro

Fernand de Bois d'Enghien

Églantine Éméyé

Églantine Éméyé

Viviane Duverger

Ève Ruggieri

Ève Ruggieri

Baroness Duverger

Valérie Payet

Valérie Payet

Daniela Lumbroso

Daniela Lumbroso

Tex

Tex

Bouzin

Nelson Monfort

Nelson Monfort

Bernard Pivot

Bernard Pivot

Michel Drucker

Michel Drucker

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