- Source: La Carapate
La Carapate is a 1978 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury.
Plot
In May 1968, Jean-Philippe Duroc, a lawyer accused of ultra-leftism, visits his client, Martial Gaulard, sentenced to death for a murder he has not committed. At that moment, a mutiny happens inside the prison. Gaulard takes the opportunity and, stealing the clothes of his lawyer, achieves to escape. The police is convinced that Duroc has contributed at the evasion and the two men are wanted by all the police stations of France.
Cast
Pierre Richard ... Maître Jean-Philippe Duroc, lawyer of Martial Gaulard
Victor Lanoux ... Martial Gaulard, the accused, fascist and anti-soixante-huitard
Raymond Bussières ... Marcel Duroc, vieux père de Jean-Philippe
Jean-Pierre Darras ... Jacques Panivaux, the Bourgeois
Yvonne Gaudeau ... Gisèle Panivaux, the Bourgeoise
Jacques Frantz ... Rocheteau
Claire Richard ... Blanche Hirondelle "Bach Yen", the Vietnamese fiancée of Gaulard
Blanche Ravalec ... Marguerite
Claude Brosset ... Gustave
Bernard Granger ... Jeannot
Éric Desmaretz ... the judge
Katia Tchenko ... the prostitute
Bruno Balp ... Gaston Buteau
Janine Souchon ... Josette Buteau
Christian Bouillette ... Dupuis
Alain Doutey ... the inspector
Robert Dalban ... the bar owner
Henri Poirier ... brigadier CRS
Release
The film was released 10 years after the May 1968 events in France.
Bibliography
Gérard Oury (1988). Orban (ed.). Mémoires d'éléphant. p. 330. ISBN 2855654351. (reprinted by Presses Pocket in 1989, ISBN 2266030639, and by Plon in 1999, ISBN 2259191835)
References
External links
La Carapate at IMDb
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- Blanche Ravalec
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- Pierre Richard
- List of films set in Paris
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- Jacques Frantz
- Gérard Oury
- Danièle Thompson
- Katia Tchenko
- Victor Lanoux
