Les joyeux lurons (1972)
Three priests in cassocks visit a modest and naive country priest in a village in the South of France. They claim to be sent by the bishop for the purpose of recovering a precious reliquary currently in the hands of a vigorously anti-clerical squire. The non apostolic behavior of the three priests causes the disturbance in the village without altering the confidence of the priest. But the situation is complicated at the Sunday Mass: one is drunk on the sacristy, the other improvises a sermon not very Catholic and the third is a mess in the choir of singing. With the naive complicity of the priest, their scam is about to end ...
Director: Michel Gérard
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Alice Sapritch as Léonie, la bonne du curé |
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Paul Préboist as Le curé Paccard |
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Michel Galabru as Le chanoine Bossuet |
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Philippe Clay as L'abbé Larivière |
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Vincent Gauthier as Patrick |
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Rachel Cathoud as Laurence |
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Bernard Charlan as |
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Jeannette Batti as La patronne de boîte |
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Jacques Balutin as L'abbé Fénelon |
| Directing | Michel Gérard | Director |
| Writing | Michel Gérard | Scenario Writer |
| Writing | Vincent Gauthier | Scenario Writer |