Tartarin de Tarascon

Tartarin de Tarascon (1962)

Comedy

A well-to-do bourgeois, Tartarin lives in Tarascon, a small southern town, among friends who, like him, love hunting "à la casquette", gossip, aperitifs and thought-provoking journeys. Imaginative like all his compatriots, Tartarin ended up believing he had once been to Shanghai, so fervently did he recount his illusory adventures. It was even rumored that Tartarin was about to leave for Africa to hunt wild beasts, and this was so insistent that the brave man, urged on by his friends, was forced "for the sake of honor" to embark. He arrives in Casablanca, surprised to discover a modern city and not a single lion. But a charming Moorish woman, Baïa, seduces him, and Tartarin indulges in the "delights of Capua". This euphoria is short-lived: Baïa disappears, a false prince, mostly a swindler, finds a replacement and sets off on a hunting expedition in southern Morocco, which will only earn Tartarin the loss of his savings and a blind old lion dragged along by two beggars.

Director: Francis Blanche

Casts

	Francis Blanche as Antoine Tartarin
	Jacqueline Maillan as Mrs. Bézuquet
	Michel Galabru as Barbassou
	Alfred Adam as Prince Gregori of Montenegro
	Camille Guérini as Victor Bombonnel
	Paul Préboist as Costecade
	Alain Bouvette as Fracca
	Robert Porte as Bézuquet
	Annick Tanguy as Baja
	Hubert Deschamps as Ladévèze
	Gaston Orbal as Bravida
	Michel Emer as Pianist
	Maryse Paillet as Berthe Fracca
	Joe Sentieri as Singer in the train carriage
	Raoul André as Locomotive engineer
	Yvan Audouard as Porter
	Bourvil as Priest who reinflates the tire of his moped
	Darry Cowl as Man broken down in the desert
	Jean Richard as Director of the 'Mitaine' circus
	Raymond Devos as Motorist
	Roger Pierre as Scout
	Jean-Marc Thibault as Scout
	Georges de Caunes as Radio reporter
	Henri Salvador as Gamekeeper who shoots himself in the foot
	Albert Hugues as Tholosan, cafe owner
	Ibrahim Seck as Owner of the blind lion
	Edith Fontaine as Jeanne, maid
	Aïta Vitton as
	Tayeb Saddiki as

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