The vicissitudes of showbiz take the hero Renart (Gerald Battiaz) and his wife Hermeline (Francoise Dupertuis) from up to down and back again in this brief drama. Renart entertains at a nightclub by pulling objects out of a suitcase on stage and creating a wide range of sound effects with his collection of odds and ends. All goes well until his wife is fired from her job at the club because she is pregnant. That infuriates Renart, and he quits. The couple then take off for the mountains and open up a club of their own, but now when he is the owner, Renart is transformed for the worse.
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Cast
17 people
Tom Novembre
Renart
Known for
An American Werewolf in Paris
The Sheltering Sky
Fabienne Barraud
Hermeline
Also in
Les Petites Fugues
The Little Bedroom
Marin Karmitz
Michel Soutter
Bernard Meister
Marilú Marini
Marie-Jo
Jean-Louis Porchet
Armand Deladoey
Lucien
Also in
L'amour des femmes
Rouge Capucine
Jean-Pierre Gos
Brun
Known for
Vidocq
The Singer
Jean Schlegel
Marcel
Christine Schaller
Madame Wiegan
Corinne Coderey
La patronne du bistrot
Michel Soutter Director
First release August 31, 1985 · Produced in France · Production mk2 Films
Production
CAB Productions
Production
mk2 Films
Production
France
Produced in
Languages
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
Italy · August 31, 1985
Venice Film Festival premiere
France · March 26, 1986
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Canada
October 1, 1985 · Montréal Festival of New Cinema
Switzerland
January 16, 1986 · Solothurn Film Festival
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