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Synopsis. Baptiste Fabre runs a small grocery in a village near Marseille. He has raised not only his son Casimir, but also his nephew Irénée. Whereas Casimir has his feet on the ground and will make a good businessman, Irénée is whimsical and shows little aptitude for the grocer's trade. He loves the movies and is convinced he's a born ...
Le Schpountz ★★ Heartbeat 1938. Satire on filmmaking and film-loving fans finds a small town grocer (Fernandel) in southern France becoming the victim of a practical joke when a visiting film crew promises to make him a star (signing him to a phony contract) if he'll come to Paris. Naturally, the joke's on them when the naive grocer arrives ...
Heartbeat. In this comedy by renowned French filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, naïve grocer Irénée Fabre (Fernandel) dreams of becoming a movie star and believes that he has the talent to make it in ...
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- Fernandel
- Marcel Pagnol
- Comedy
Le schpountz: Directed by Gérard Oury. With Smaïn, Sabine Azéma, Ticky Holgado, Martin Lamotte. A naive guy, passionate cinemaddict, believes that his minor extras role is a first step to a shining star career.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Gérard Oury
- 1999-08-25
Aug 25, 1999 · Build 13f37d1 (7903) Irénée has no desire to work in his uncle's grocery shop and dreams of becoming an actor. His opportunity comes when a crew of movie makers came to his little village. Irénée begins to go over the top in order to be noticed, which earns him the traditional joke reserved to a "Schpountz" (naive person): a phoney contract ...
Meeting a movie team on location near his house, a young man gets a lot of encouragement for his dreaming career as a movie star in what was only sarcasm from the members of the team. This is the characteristic of a schpountz: someone who sees himself as a born movie comedian and is blind on the critics to his dream. After he has signed a fake contract which he blindly takes as genuine even if ...
Le schpountz: Réalisé par Marcel Pagnol Avec Fernandel, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Léon Belières. Meeting a movie team on location near his house, a young man gets a lot of encouragement for his dreaming career as a movie star in what was only sarcasm from the members of the team.
